From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: EACCES sending UDP to broadcast address? Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 18:04:44 -0700 Message-ID: <552721AC.9080900@candelatech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netdev Return-path: Received: from mail2.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.173]:51645 "EHLO mail2.candelatech.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751938AbbDJBEq (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Apr 2015 21:04:46 -0400 Received: from [192.168.100.236] (unknown [50.251.239.81]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail2.candelatech.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7389A40EA62 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 2015 18:04:45 -0700 (PDT) Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: I'm running as root user, 4.0-rc6 + hack kernel. User-space app is (or should be) trying to send a UDP frame to 255.255.255.255 destination. I am getting EACCESS from sendmmsg. Is this expected? Is there something even more special than root these days? Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com