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Thanks shmem. Unfortunately, my colleague can bind any address he wants, even weird or non-existent ones, and the module flawlessly fails to notice. It still uses the... er, default interface.

Any clues? Should I go and try to patch the module myself?

Ciao!
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Re^3: Net::Ping broken on Solaris?
by shmem (Chancellor) on Sep 11, 2006 at 16:20 UTC

    No further clue atm; and - if it's broken, u-fix-it :-)

    But it might be the case that binding a socket to an interface just isn't possible on Solaris.

    Why is interface binding necessary?

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      Sorry for not being back for a while... :-( Because the script is part of a monitoring system, and he needs to check that a device is reachble from that specific interface.

      Hmm... I guess that, unless he already solved the problem, I'll have to try a patch :-D. Thanks anyway!

      Ciao!
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