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Am Dienstag, 3. September 2002 09:40 schrieb Yong-Hoon Choi:
> Hi all,
>
> I understood that SCTP daemon need "root" privilege since it uses raw
> socket. But I don't know why other client examples such as "test_tool"
> need root privileges.

The sctplib uses a raw socket to generate IP packets. Therefore, all programs
using the sctplib require root privileges. The sctpd daemon runs an SCTP
instance as separate program. Client programs access this deamon using UDP;
therefore, no root privileges are necessary for these programs.
Unfortunately, the sctpd daemon is not supported by newer versions of the
sctplib and socket API. Currently, we are looking for a new maintainer of the
sctpd daemon. Until then, you have to use sctplib directly and therefore you
need root privileges.


Best regards
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• [SCTP-Discussion] [SCTP-Discussions] Why all SCTP examples should run as root privileges??, Yong-Hoon Choi, 09/03/2002
  • Re: [SCTP-Discussion] [SCTP-Discussions] Why all SCTP examples should run as root privileges??, Thomas Dreibholz, 09/03/2002

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