diff -Naur fping-4.0.orig/src/fping.c fping-4.0/src/fping.c
--- fping-4.0.orig/src/fping.c	2017-04-23 18:03:08.000000000 +0200
+++ fping-4.0/src/fping.c	2018-01-04 07:34:48.407272347 +0100
@@ -681,6 +681,10 @@
 
     /* validate various option settings */
 
+    if (!socket4 && !socket6) {
+        crash_and_burn("can't create socket (must run as root?)");
+    }
+
     if (ttl > 255) {
         fprintf(stderr, "%s: ttl %u out of range\n", prog, ttl);
         exit(1);
diff -Naur fping-4.0.orig/src/socket4.c fping-4.0/src/socket4.c
--- fping-4.0.orig/src/socket4.c	2017-04-23 18:03:08.000000000 +0200
+++ fping-4.0/src/socket4.c	2018-01-04 07:05:05.700365015 +0100
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
         /* try non-privileged icmp (works on Mac OSX without privileges, for example) */
         s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, proto->p_proto);
         if (s < 0) {
-            errno_crash_and_burn("can't create socket (must run as root?)");
+            return 0;
         }
     }
 
diff -Naur fping-4.0.orig/src/socket6.c fping-4.0/src/socket6.c
--- fping-4.0.orig/src/socket6.c	2017-04-23 18:03:08.000000000 +0200
+++ fping-4.0/src/socket6.c	2018-01-04 07:05:01.767305629 +0100
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
         /* try non-privileged icmp (works on Mac OSX without privileges, for example) */
         s = socket(AF_INET6, SOCK_DGRAM, proto->p_proto);
         if (s < 0) {
-            errno_crash_and_burn("can't create raw socket (must run as root?)");
+            return 0;
         }
     }