joshuar / pingbeat

DEPRECATED. Pingbeat sends ICMP packets and stores the RTT in Elasticsearch or other outputs supported by libbeat.
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Add alternative privileges handling to README.md #10

Closed kwilczynski closed 8 years ago

kwilczynski commented 8 years ago

Make sure that people can use pingbeat with CAP_NET_RAW if their underlying operating system (or distribution) supports capabilities setting on binaries. Most likely any modern Linux kernel and/or distribution would allow for this to work.