support for IPPROTO_ICMP

[rofl0r]

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c319b4d76b9e

this patch makes it possible to use ping without root privs

[steev]

Have you tested this patch or just going based on what the commit message says?

[rofl0r]

this patch is on all recent kernels, and i'm using the feature in my linux distro
(i even wrote the support for busybox' ping utility)

sabotage-linux/sabotage@3cc4b49

[steev]

Right - recent kernels - this kernel is 2.6.31 based, and while it may backport fairly easily, I don't know if anyone at Genesi has the time to do so, and those of us outside it... don't have as much free time as we used to. So if you'd like to see it in this kernel, it would be forever helpful if you tested that it worked and sent a pull request :)