Can't create IPv6 session on macOS

[mohd-akram]

Running:

const netPing = require('net-ping');

const ipv6Session = netPing.createSession({
  networkProtocol: netPing.NetworkProtocol.IPv6
});

fails with:

Error: Operation not permitted
    at new Socket (/Users/mohamed/Documents/test/node_modules/raw-socket/index.js:47:14)
    at Object.exports.createSocket (/Users/mohamed/Documents/test/node_modules/raw-socket/index.js:202:9)
    at Session.getSocket (/Users/mohamed/Documents/test/node_modules/net-ping/index.js:147:20)
    at new Session (/Users/mohamed/Documents/test/node_modules/net-ping/index.js:101:7)
    at Object.exports.createSession (/Users/mohamed/Documents/test/node_modules/net-ping/index.js:545:9)

[stephenwvickers]

Hi, I believe the error is quite clear, you need to have permissions to be able to open raw sockets on your platform.

[mohd-akram]

That's not necessary for ping though. See Apple's implementation. I saw that you do something similar in node-raw-socket, but I'm not sure why it doesn't work for IPv6.

[stephenwvickers]

@mohd-akram I am not sure, it should be falling back to UDP for both IPv4 and IPv6.

Perhaps the strace equivilant on Mac would show what is actually being called?

[mohd-akram]

I think I found the problem. The check here is only for IPPROTO_ICMP and not IPPROTO_ICMPV6.