netdev - Re: Traceroute and "ping" sockets: some questions

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Date:	Fri, 19 Aug 2011 07:00:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	buc@...sz.so-cdu.ru
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Traceroute and "ping" sockets: some questions

From: Dmitry Butskoy <buc@...sz.so-cdu.ru>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:56:26 +0400

> Why then there is "net/ipv4/ping_group_range" restrictions, with
> default values (low=1, high=0) which denies this way even for root?

While we shake out the bugs and better understand the security
implications of this feature.  One this is resolved we can deprecate
this.
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