Re:Rootless Containers
by angry_octet on Sunday May 31, 2020 @11:50AM
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SLiRP was written by Danny Gasparovski from Canberra.
Actual SLIP needed privs on the host to configure everything. slirp did it in usermode, allowing lowly undergrads to get real IP connections at home from the terminal services universities provided. Then you could run NSCA Mosaic at home :-) And ftp things directly, instead of downloading to your shell account tmp dir and using zmodem to transfer it the last hop.
It went away as real ISPs began to appear, offering PPP connections, and universities dropped their dial-in services. Strange and glorious to see it back again.
Actual SLIP needed privs on the host to configure everything. slirp did it in usermode, allowing lowly undergrads to get real IP connections at home from the terminal services universities provided. Then you could run NSCA Mosaic at home :-) And ftp things directly, instead of downloading to your shell account tmp dir and using zmodem to transfer it the last hop.
https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/1174
It went away as real ISPs began to appear, offering PPP connections, and universities dropped their dial-in services. Strange and glorious to see it back again.