On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 01:48:33PM -0000,
Cherrington Stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
a message of 287 lines which said:
> smokeping[14496]: EchoPingSmtp: Failed setting IP type of
> service octet (Operation not permitted)
On Linux (it seems to be te only Unix in that case), you need to be
root to set the precedence of an IP packet.
> The -P flag seems to be the culprit,
No, the "tos" option in your Smokeping configuration is (see
'smokeping -man Smokeping::probes::EchoPingHttp'). I advise *not* to
set it, it is of little use, anyway.
> so I read and re-read the man page,
It warns you:
You may need to be superuser to set some -p or -P values (precedence
on
Linux, for instance).
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