Chris Knipe wrote:
> This is coded in ActivePerl (Win32), and I am experiancing some weird
> problems in regards to sending ICMP ping packets?
>
> If I do not send the packet as a user with Administrative rights, the
> ping packet responds with a "Unknown Socket Error" message, but when
> I do have Administrative rights, it works perfectly... Someone dont
> perhaps know why / have some pointers for me as to why this is
> happening? Is this a restriction in Windows NT itself??
This sounds not unlike Unix, where you need root privilege to send
ICMP packets.
> - From what I am seeing at the moment, it almost wants to look to me
> like Microsoft is denying any access to ICMP data except if the NTLM
> Authenticated user has Administrative rights (or perhaps some other
> odd setting). This is however totally upsurd, because any user is
> able to use the ping.exe command... If anyone has experianced
> similar weirdness, will you perhaps please let me know how you got to
> fix this? I'm really desparate...
Well, on Unix ping is normally setuid root. I don't know what the
Windows equivalent would be.
> The code looks as follows:
>
> # Do our monitoring here. These values are unique per DB
> entry.
> $ping = Net::Ping->new("icmp", 10);
> if (!($ping->ping($IPAddr))) {
> Notify_Mail($Email);
> Notify_Admins($LineNumber);
> };
> $ping->close();
Does this work on any Unix systems without root privilege?
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