python broadcast socket

[ronpro at cox.net]

I'm sort of new to both Python and socket programming so I appologize ahead of time if this is a dumb question.  I have found that the following code works on windows but on linux I get an exception.

import socket
s = socket.socket( socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM )
s.connect( ( '<broadcast>', 1617 ) )

The exception I get is:

socket.error: (13, 'permission denied')


I have tried this on three Linux machines.  All firewall software is disabled.


Thanks for you time and patience.

Ron