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Originally Posted by Jabo
Is there something wrong with raw sockets? networking challenged here.
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Not sure, but I'd guess it requires root privileges, hence the need for sudo.
[edit:] actually, this makes sense. Giving raw network access seems (to my slightly buzzed mind, had a couple drinks this evening) like a very possible security risk, hence the need for - as Vista so well puts it - elevated privileges. Requiring anything using raw sockets to either run as root or call setuid() to get root privileges seems like a feasible requirement.