[smokeping-users] smoketrace bad packet length value

[Tobias Oetiker]

Pete,

make traceroute setuid root as it used to be in the good old days
...

cheers
tobi

Today Pete Hoffswell wrote:

> I receive the bad packet error as well, on a new trace installation.
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> Further research, based on Tobi's thoughts shows:
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> server:~ # sudo -u wwwrun traceroute -I eth0 www.yahoo.com
> traceroute to www.yahoo.com (209.191.93.52), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
> Unable to bind to network interface eth0: Operation not permitted
> server:~ #
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> Thing is I'm not sure how to fix that permissions problem.
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> How do I get my wwwrun web user to run traceroute -I?
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> Pete Hoffswell                 616-732-1101 (x1101)
> Network Manager                616-510-1198 (Mobile)
> IT Services                    pete.hoffswell at davenport.edu
> Davenport University
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