Raw sockets: type not supported

[Durkheim]

Hello,

The thing I want to do is: declare myself an ip header, a icmp header (to redo a ping style command), and send them trough a socket.

To do so, I've tried to compile something like this:



if (socket(PF_INET,SOCK_RAW,0) == -1)
{
cout<<"error"<<endl;
perror ("socket");
}
else
{
cout<<"cool"<<endl;
}

The answer at run time :



error
socket: Socket type not supported

I'm using breezy badger. I'm wondering if this is a os related problem, or if I have to specifiy a protcol at the end (if this is the case, wich ones are supported?)... I'm really lost here.

I've been eading man pages for a few days but can't find the answer... Ay help appreciated. Thanks in advance!

David

[LordHunter317]

Are you root? Regular users don't normally have the capacity to open raw sockets.

[jerome bettis]

i used this library once, http://www.alhem.net/Sockets/

not the best thing in the world, but it was certainly the easiest way i found (days on google) to get data going back and forth. plus the author was very helpful when i had some questions. i guess the best thing though was the documentation on the website, that program used to generate that is pretty slick.