[Wine] Re: Fping-appreciate some help please

[cabsandy]

vitamin wrote:
> 
> cabsandy wrote:
> > I was hopeful that this prog would be able to run in WINE.
> 
> It won't work properly in Wine without playing with permissions. Regular users can not open raw sockets on Linux (and most other *NIXes). And ping requires that, since it's uses ICMP protocol.
> 
> But even if you get it to work, I still won't trust it. Wine will be adding some latency here. You talking about milliseconds here, it will be noticeable.


That's a a fair comment, and one that I wanted confirmed from someone who knows more about this than me ;-) I will move on from now, thanks for your time. Might need to look at the virtualisation again.

thanks

cabs