On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 10:46:06AM -0400, Chuck wrote: > i am trying to use the arping utility inside a guest. i have a ccap of > raw_icmp already for something else in the guest. i keep getting this > error" > > arping: socket: Operation not permitted
not unexpected, arp is not icmp :) > i looked through the caps listing but can't find anything obvious that > I should use.. you need the 'evil' CAP_NET_RAW (bcaps) for this to work, as the arp ping utility generates raw packets on a raw socket ... > any suggestions? > > this is for a nagios monitoring setup where we cannot ping certain ip > addresses because of their firewall settings, so i thought we could > still monitor those using arping. makes it insecure, why not use a tcp or udp type ping to a known good port? best, Herbert > -- > > Chuck > > > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [email protected] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
