ping.py

allows to do an ICMP ping to an IPv4 address from the specified IPv4 interface. Sufficient rights are needed on the machine to open a raw socket.

Specificities

This script requires the following positional commands line arguments to work:

required positional argument 1: <src ip>: the IPv4 address of the interface to use to send the ping request.
required positional argument 2: <dst ip>: the IPv4 address of the target machine to ping.

# Send ping requests from "192.168.10.15" to "192.168.10.16"
sudo ping.py "192.168.10.15" "192.168.10.16"

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