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diff --git a/network/slirp4netns/README b/network/slirp4netns/README index 88d35cf3bfd3a..2fe05821576a0 100644 --- a/network/slirp4netns/README +++ b/network/slirp4netns/README @@ -1,14 +1,14 @@ slirp4netns -slirp4netns provides user-mode networking ("slirp") for unprivileged network -namespaces. +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) +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"). +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"). |