Re: ping: "Operation not permitted"
I'm doing this as root. Does that make a difference?
Later,
Kevin
On Mon, 18 May 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> Sounds like more setuid trouble. To send an ICMP packet (ping uses the ICMP
> ECHO-REQUEST) you need a "raw" socket. Only root can create a raw socket. For
> this reason ping must be setuid root. Make sure that it is.
>
> Kevin Traas wrote:
>
> > I've just installed a new box running Debian 2.0 (hamm) and I'm having a
> > slight problem. I can't get it working properly on the network (this is
> > my fourth hamm install and all others are fine...).
> >
> > For some reason, packets are not going out eth0.
> >
> > ifconfig reports interface as normal and expected.
> >
> > ping reports: (to a remote interface)
> >
> > nics# ping 192.168.1.1
> > PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes
> > ping: sendto: Operation not permitted
> > ping: wrote 192.168.1.1 64 chars, ret=-1
> > .....
> >
> > route -n reports:
> >
> > Destination Gateway Mask Flags Metric Ref Interface
> > 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 eth0
> > 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 lo
> > 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 eth0
> >
> > This looks normal too.
> >
> > I don't have any "strange" daemons running. It's a pretty basic
> > box/config. No IP Masq, etc. `dmesg' doesn't show any problems.
> > Neither do syslog, messages, etc.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Kevin Traas
> >
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