Bug#1022886: ITP: passt -- Unprivileged user-mode network connectivity for virtual machines and containers
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
* Package name : passt
Version : 0.0~git20221026.f212044
Upstream Author : Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
* URL : https://passt.top/
* License : AGPL-3.0-or-later AND BSD-3-Clause
Programming Lang: C
Description : Unprivileged user-mode network connectivity for virtual machines and containers
passt implements a translation layer between a Layer-2 network
interface and native Layer-4 sockets (TCP, UDP, ICMP/ICMPv6 echo) on
a host. It doesn't require any capabilities or privileges, and it can
be used as a simple replacement for Slirp.
pasta (same binary as passt, different command) offers equivalent
functionality, for network namespaces: traffic is forwarded using a
tap interface inside the namespace, without the need to create
further interfaces on the host, hence not requiring any capabilities
or privileges.
This might become a dependency for other packages such as libvirt and
podman. Having it packaged in Debian would actually favour adoption
of this solution over libslirp/slirp4netns, which provide a similar
functionality but limited in many aspects, with generally poorer
performance and with a codebase that originates from a very different
purpose, that showed a number of security issues in its long history.
I filed a RFP in the past, at:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1010498
I now plan to maintain this package as sponsored maintainer, and I
already contacted a sponsor.
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