--On Wednesday, January 23, 2002 02:36:58 PM +0100 Nicolas DEFFAYET
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> My traceroute6 and ping6 work fine as root but not as user:
>
> $ traceroute6 www.6bone.net
> traceroute6: icmp socket: Operation not permitted
> $ ping6 www.6bone.net
> ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted
>
> Why ?
The tools needs access to raw sockets, which is only allowed for root
user.
Peter
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