From: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@linux.dev>
To: development@efficientek.com
Cc: linux-um@lists.infradead.org, tiwei.bie@linux.dev
Subject: Re: No more non-root networking modes?
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:08:55 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251118060855.3714863-1-tiwei.bie@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251117203131.479a1cfd@crass-HP-ZBook-15-G2>
On Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:31:31 -0600, Glenn Washburn wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm just now noticing that earlier this year obsolete networking
> transports were removed (commit 65eaac591b75). This included SLiRP,
> which was to my knowledge the only transport that supported network
> access as an unprivileged user (no privileged access needed to setup
> the transport either). Am I wrong about that? If not, I'm curious as to
> why functionality that could not be achieved by other means was
> dropped? And if there are any work arounds? I can understand why other
> transports that need privileged access to setup, but were inferior to
> other existing transports would be removed. I write this as someone who
> is currently using the SLiRP transport.
vec also supports networking without privileged access:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v6.17/virt/uml/user_mode_linux_howto_v2.html#vde-vector-transport
https://lore.kernel.org/all/bfa07f4d-16a3-476b-9314-b8052ec198b1@antgroup.com/
Regards,
Tiwei
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2025-11-18 2:31 No more non-root networking modes? Glenn Washburn
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