Sending ECHO_REQUEST (pinging) with python

[Michal 'vorner' Vaner]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:30:16AM +0200, Thomas Dybdahl Ahle wrote:
> Hi, I've writing a python application in which I'd like to have a small 
> "ping label", to always tell the current ping time to the server.
> 
> It seems however that I have to be root to send those imcp packages, but 
> I guess there must be a workaround since I can easily use the "ping" 
> command as ordinary user.
> 
> Do anybody know how to do this in python?

You need root for that and the ping command is allowed to have them by
suid bit. You can execute ping from inside python and use ping as is, if
you need.

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