Raw network sockets are a curious beasts, as unless you have a strong urge to implement your own low-level network protocol, it’s a topic that is probably best left to the (well-paid) experts. That ...

I want to give a user on my linux machine the ability to write, run and test programs that use raw sockets and privledged ports without giving him the whole shebang of root access. Is this possible?

A TCP/IP socket. The "raw" refers to the socket itself where one might program directly to the socket without going through the TCP/IP programming interface. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY.

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I was split b/w here and NT Mojo... but this made more sense.... anyway, someone appears to have disabled my RAW sockets in 2000. How do I re-enable them. I have this strange suspicion someone in my ...

Microsoft is using a new patch to block sending data via “raw sockets”, a technique the security community uses to analyse otherwise inaccessible data, prompting one expert to e-mail his peers: “Pick ...