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Olivier Lefevre <lefevrol <at> yahoo.com> writes:

> Re. raw sockets and the need for elevated privilege,
> can't you use the RunAs trick to get around it?

Also on Unix/Linux a raw socket cannot be used by a normal user.
But the ping program is setuid root and thus can be called by any user.
Unfortunatly there is no such mechanism in cygwin.

Regards

kf




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