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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"). |