Re: ping: sendto: Permission denied

Chris Wedgwood (cw@ix.net.nz)
Thu, 4 Mar 1999 08:58:27 +1300


On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 08:06:42PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

> > My problem is: Network traffic over eth1 doesn't work.
> > When I ping to an IP-Adress which is routed over eth1 I get errors like
> >
> > ping: sendto: Permission denied
>
> You are trying to ping a broadcast address

later versions of ping set SO_BROADCAST to allow this... or you can
run ping as root.

-cw

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