SOCK_RAW with python socket library?

[Tim Lavoie]

Hello,

I've been tinkering with some socket programming lately, basically trying
out ideas I get from browsing W. Richard Stevens' "UNIX Network
Programming". Anyway, I'd like to play in Python too, so I'm using the
socket library functions. When I try to use SOCK_RAW though, I get:

   socket.error: (93, 'Protocol not supported')

I understand the "operation not permitted" if I try it as a non-root user,
but why this? Is SOCK_RAW not supported yet? The docs mention that it isn't
generally useful, but it is quite specifically useful for say, ping.


  Thanks,
    Tim Lavoie

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