Ping from source ip address

[faizan123_23330]

Hi,

I have F5 LTMs in our production environment. I assign the two different ip addresses on two interfaces (1.1,1.2) 1.1 --> 10.1.1.1 1.2 --> 20.1.1.1

The default route on the F5 is (0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 10.1.1.10)

i want to ping the IP 30.1.1.1 using the source ip of 1.1 interface(10.1.1.1). Kindly tell me the command how to do that ?

thanks.

[Jad_Tabbara__J1]

Hello Faizan,

you can use ping with -I argument like that

 ping -I source_IP dest_IP

Regards

[Stan_Ward]

When I try that (on 14.1.2.3), I get:

bind: Cannot assign requested address

It doesn't matter whether the IP is a self IP, a float, a SNAT, or a VIP, the message is always the same.

There are no route domains except the default %0.

[Jimmy_L]

Stan,

I had the same problem, but I found it was because I was in a different partition than the one in which my source self IP resided. From TMSH before switching to BASH do a "cd /<partition>" to switch to the partition where your self IP is, then switch to BASH an use Jad's ping command.

[Rebecca_Moloney]

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