Need help creating a raw socket in Python

Question

I am using Python 2.7. I have tried everything and it is not connecting. The error I get is:

Socket could not be created. Error Code : 10013 Message An attempt was 
 made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions.

I am making a ping.

def doOnePing(destAddr, timeout):
 icmp = socket.getprotobyname("icmp")
 # SOCK_RAW is a powerful socket type. For more details see: 
 # http://sock-raw.org/papers/sock_raw
 # Fill in start
 # Create Socket here
 try:
 #mySocket = socket.socket(2, 3, 1)
 # the public network interface
 HOST = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
 # create a raw socket and bind it to the public interface
 mySocket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_RAW, socket.IPPROTO_IP)
 mySocket.bind((HOST, 0))
 # Include IP headers
 mySocket.setsockopt(socket.IPPROTO_IP, socket.IP_HDRINCL, 1)
 # receive all packages
 mySocket.ioctl(socket.SIO_RCVALL, socket.RCVALL_ON)
 # receive a package
 print mySocket.recvfrom(65565)
 print ('Connected by', destAddr)
 except socket.error , msg:
 print ('Socket could not be created. Error Code : ' + str(msg[0]) + 
 ' Message ' + msg[1])
 #Fill in end

• robertklep: Are you running your script as root? Creating raw sockets is usually a privileged operation.
• Ivo: You'll have to run this script as an administrator. I'm pretty sure you want to pass icmp as the third argument to socket.socket().

Answer 1

Try running your script as a privileged user. The root user on Linux would be appropriate.

• Ivo: I think they're on Windows, otherwise their script wouldn't be using socket.ioctl.
• user2847851: i am on Windows, sorry