Indeed, Net::Ping hardware binding seems to work on linux only; the setsockopt call uses SO_BINDTODEVICE which constant isn't defined on solaris. The subroutine that provides the constant is

# h2ph "asm/socket.h"
# require "asm/socket.ph";
sub SO_BINDTODEVICE {25;}
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Hmm... asm/socket.h ? This file doesn't exist on solaris (nor *BSD).

But in Net::Ping there's $p->bind($local_addr) - maybe that suffices to select the interface.

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