Re: ping: "Operation not permitted"
On Tue, 19 May 1998, Dave Wreski 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...).
>
> >> > 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
>
> Make sure you don't accidentally have firewall rules preventing ping's.
Ping is probably not setuid - it needs to be in order to open the raw
socket.
Jason
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