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It will be interesting to see how this evolves; hopefully it will make it easier to build a userland TCP/IP stack, and maybe even to make it easier to ship a ne
by rpcope1 12y ago
It will be interesting to see how this evolves; hopefully it will make it easier to build a userland TCP/IP stack, and maybe even to make it easier to ship a new transport protocol (this might make it easier to push for HTTP over SCTP instead of TCP, which makes far more sense, really). Also this will be nice if it allows userland applications to utilize ICMP (traceroute/nmap would no longer be nerfed without root access). NUSE alone should be incredibly handy.
- justincormack 12y agoYou still need root access to connect to an outside network interface from the userland stack, eg a raw socket... Linux has unpriveleged icmp sockets but no one has ever used them apparently - IPPROTO_ICMP eg see [1] [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14018584/python-with-unprivileged-ping-in-linux-ipproto-icmp http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14018584/python-with-unpr...