ping -6 ignores -e parameter
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Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 18:15:47 UTC
Hello! In a man page for ping(8) and in it's help output I found option "-e": -e gateway Specifies to use gateway as the next hop to the destination. The gateway must be a neighbor of the sending node. I tried to use this argument, ping ignores this parameter and sends the packet via default gateway. For example I have a tun0 which has ipv6 default gw, and an established bridge0 which has available some LL addresses: Neighbor Linklayer Address Netif Expire S Flags fe80::2a0:98ff:fe1d:e270%bridge0 00:a0:98:1d:e2:70 bridge0 23h56m34s S R I tried to run: ping -6 -e FE80::2A0:98FF:FE1D:E270%bridge0 google.com But the packet was sent via tun0 interface. What is wrong with it? -- MATPOCKuH