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authorVincent Batts <vbatts@hashbangbash.com>2019-02-22 09:27:40 +0700
committerWilly Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>2019-02-22 09:27:40 +0700
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+slirp4netns
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+slirp4netns provides user-mode networking ("slirp") for unprivileged network
+namespaces.
+
+Starting with Linux 3.8, unprivileged users can create network_namespaces(7)
+along with user_namespaces(7). However, unprivileged network namespaces had
+not been very useful, because creating veth(4) pairs across the host and
+network namespaces still requires the root privileges. (i.e. No internet
+connection)
+
+slirp4netns allows connecting a network namespace to the Internet in a
+completely unprivileged way, by connecting a TAP device in a network namespace
+to the usermode TCP/IP stack ("slirp").