{"id":484,"date":"2025-12-06T22:23:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T04:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/?p=484"},"modified":"2025-12-08T12:03:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:03:50","slug":"debian-sid-ping-not-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/06\/debian-sid-ping-not-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Debian Ping not working"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I came across an issue with trying to use the ping command after I installed the latest SparkyLinux (A Debian based distro). It would only work when run as sudo, but I got an error, &#8220;<strong>missing cap_net_raw+p<\/strong>&#8221; when run as a normal user. After some digging, I found the solution on a blog post at <a href=\"https:\/\/shallowsky.com\/blog\/linux\/ping-permissions.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/shallowsky.com\/blog\/linux\/ping-permissions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ShallowSky.com<\/a>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/shallowsky.com\/blog\/linux\/ping-permissions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/shallowsky.com\/blog\/linux\/ping-permissions.html<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"590\" height=\"109\" src=\"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Ping-Sid.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Ping-Sid.png 590w, https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Ping-Sid-300x55.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ping command not working. missing cap_net_raw+p.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The fix? Install<strong> <em>linux-sysctl-defaults<\/em><\/strong> then reboot your machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"801\" height=\"403\" src=\"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Ping-Sid2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Ping-Sid2.png 801w, https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Ping-Sid2-300x151.png 300w, https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Ping-Sid2-768x386.png 768w, https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Ping-Sid2-660x332.png 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 801px) 100vw, 801px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Working perfect now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"568\" height=\"123\" src=\"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Ping-Sid3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Ping-Sid3.png 568w, https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Ping-Sid3-300x65.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across an issue with trying to use the ping command after I installed the latest SparkyLinux (A Debian based distro). It would only work when run as sudo, but I got an error, &#8220;missing cap_net_raw+p&#8221; when run as a normal user. After some digging, I found the solution on a blog post at\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/06\/debian-sid-ping-not-working\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}