[SOLVED] Ping from interface with command line

Started by vupibi, May 31, 2016, 11:41:17 PM

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May 31, 2016, 11:41:17 PM Last Edit: June 04, 2016, 03:24:35 PM by franco
Hello,

I need to ping a server through different interfaces on an OPNsense system. I could do that with the web interface but I need it in command line.

"ifconfig" gives me the names of my interfaces, in my case it is from xn0 to xn13.

Usually i would use a command like

ping -I xn2 google.de

but I always receive
ping: invalid multicast interface: `xn2'

for every interface. What am I doing wrong?

In FreeBSD ping(1) only supports "-S SRCIP". When you specify the source IP for the interface you want, you will ping from this particular interface owning the SRCIP.