Check_ping options not built in - use ping?

[Andreas Ericsson]

Dave Stubbs wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I need to be able to specify a source address for check_ping when 
> querying certain hosts.  The ping command has this option with -I (see 
> man ping).  Is there any way to do this with check_ping?  Does 
> check_ping have the ping command built into itself?  Or does it call the 
> ping binary?
> 

check_ping calls the ping binary. check_icmp has it built-in. It's 
fairly easy to write such spoofing code when one has access to raw 
sockets, but I never saw the need for it in a good honest application. 
If you could sketch out the basics of your network setup and provide a 
decent reason why the source IP should be user-definable I might add it 
to check_icmp.

> Dave...
> 
> 
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