Re: nping not working as intended

[Luis MartinGarcia <luis.mgarc () gmail com>]

Hi Morgan,

Can you try passing also -e and the nane of the interface that should be
used to send the packets? If that doesn't work, try passing the source MAC
address to.

Let me know if that works.

Regards

Luis MartinGarcia

-- Sent from a cellphone. Apologies for the brevity or any typos.
On 21 Jan 2015 05:50, "Morgan Tørvolt" <morgan () torvolt com> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> Bonsaiviking on IRC referred me to this mail address.
>
> I have been trying to ping the internet without having a default gw set.
> From what I have read several places, this should be possible with nping by
> setting --dest-mac
>
> My command:
> nping -4 --icmp --dest-mac "e0:cb:4e:7a:f1:5c" 8.8.8.8
>
> This works if default gw is set. It also works to IPs on my lan without
> default gw set. It does however not work without default gw set and trying
> to ping the internet. It seems like --dest-mac is not really doing anything.
>
> The error message I get is:
> Starting Nping 0.6.00 ( http://nmap.org/nping ) at 2015-01-21 00:15 CET
> Could not find interface eth0 which was specified by -e
>
> I realize that 0.6.00 is not the newest, but that is what I have on my
> raspberry pi.
>
> Any ideas on what to test? I could possibly compile and test the newest
> version, but that takes forever on the PI, and I don't have a cross
> compiler setup going unfortunately. Was hoping you have a quick fix, or a
> quick "won't work" reply.
>
> Best regards
> Morgan Tørvolt
>
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