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On VyOS 1.3 rolling, The ping command fails when 'interface' arguemnt is given: ``` vyos@vyos-vm-2:~$ ping 10.2.1.1 interface 10.2.6.21 /bin/ping: invalid option -- 'I' Try 'ping --help' or 'ping --usage' for more information. vyos@vyos-vm-2:~$ ping 10.2.1.1 interface dum0 /bin/ping: invalid option -- 'I' Try 'ping --help' or 'ping --usage' for more information. ``` Apparently the -I switch is not included/supported in the version of ping shipped with the upstream distribution. The ability to specify source interface / address is very important for most network administrators so this is a noticeable problem.

On VyOS 1.3 rolling, The ping command fails when 'interface' arguemnt is given: ``` vyos@vyos-vm-2:~$ ping 10.2.1.1 interface 10.2.6.21 /bin/ping: invalid option -- 'I' Try 'ping --help' or 'ping --usage' for more information. vyos@vyos-vm-2:~$ ping 10.2.1.1 interface dum0 /bin/ping: invalid option -- 'I' Try 'ping --help' or 'ping --usage' for more information. ``` The cause of this is that the "-I" switch is not included/supported in the version of ping shipped with vyos-1.3 (inetutils-ping) whereas 1.2.x was using iputils-ping. The ability to specify source interface / address is very important for most network administrators so this is a noticeable problem.

On VyOS 1.3 rolling, The ping command fails when 'interface' arguemnt is given: ``` vyos@vyos-vm-2:~$ ping 10.2.1.1 interface 10.2.6.21 /bin/ping: invalid option -- 'I' Try 'ping --help' or 'ping --usage' for more information. vyos@vyos-vm-2:~$ ping 10.2.1.1 interface dum0 /bin/ping: invalid option -- 'I' Try 'ping --help' or 'ping --usage' for more information. ``` ApparentlyThe cause of this is that the -I"-I" switch is not included/supported in the version of ping shipped with the upstream distributionvyos-1.3 (inetutils-ping) whereas 1.2.x was using iputils-ping. The ability to specify source interface / address is very important for most network administrators so this is a noticeable problem.