RE: [Nagios-devel] running checks on a specific network interface

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RE: [Nagios-devel] running checks on a specific network interface

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On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 10:24 -0500, Marc Powell wrote:

> This is standard routing, controlled by your OS. All checks will go out
> the interface specified as your default route unless you have more
> specific routes set up. All programs have very little control over how
> their outbound traffic is routed. If they did, they would have to be
> aware of the state of the network to avoid routing deficiencies...

Not entirely true. ping(1) has an option to specify the source
interface. It would not surprise me if it required root privs to do so.

Wil
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