From 6515d454c4f3a8fdc1ae76cc4d5ace3d666f26bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vincent Batts Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 09:27:40 +0700 Subject: network/slirp4netns: Added (non-root networking utility). Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo --- network/slirp4netns/README | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) create mode 100644 network/slirp4netns/README (limited to 'network/slirp4netns/README') diff --git a/network/slirp4netns/README b/network/slirp4netns/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..88d35cf3bf --- /dev/null +++ b/network/slirp4netns/README @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +slirp4netns + +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"). -- cgit v1.2.3