Output a warning if we cannot bind to the specified interface. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=81640 --- iputils-ss021109-vanilla/ping.c Thu Nov 7 23:53:21 2002 +++ iputils/ping.c Sun Jan 12 03:39:24 2003 @@ -285,6 +285,9 @@ perror("ping: IP_MULTICAST_IF"); exit(2); } + } else if (icmp_sock >= 0) { + /* We possible tried to SO_BINDTODEVICE() a subinterface like 'eth0:1' */ + perror("Warning: cannot bind to specified iface, falling back"); } } }