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David Gibson
5e12d23acb Separate IPv4 and IPv6 configuration
After recent changes, conf_ip() now has essentially entirely disjoint paths
for IPv4 and IPv6 configuration.  So, it's cleaner to split them out into
different functions conf_ip4() and conf_ip6().

Splitting these out also lets us make the interface a bit nicer, having
them return success or failure directly, rather than manipulating c->v4
and c->v6 to indicate success/failure of the two versions.

Since these functions may also initialize the interface index for each
protocol, it turns out we can then drop c->v4 and c->v6 entirely, replacing
tests on those with tests on whether c->ifi4 or c->ifi6 is non-zero (since
a 0 interface index is never valid).

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
[sbrivio: Whitespace fixes]
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2022-07-30 22:12:50 +02:00
David Gibson
4b2e018d70 Allow different external interfaces for IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity
It's quite plausible for a host to have both IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity,
but only via different interfaces.  For example, this will happen in the
case that IPv6 connectivity is via a tunnel (e.g. 6in4 or 6rd).  It would
also happen in the case that IPv4 access is via a tunnel on an otherwise
IPv6 only local network, which is a setup that might become more common in
the post IPv4 address exhaustion world.

In turns out there's no real need for passt/pasta to get its IPv4 and IPv6
connectivity via the same interface, so we can handle this situation fairly
easily.  Change the core to allow eparate external interfaces for IPv4 and
IPv6.  We don't actually set these separately for now.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
2022-07-30 21:50:41 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
a951e0b9ef conf: Add --runas option, changing to given UID and GID if started as root
On some systems, user and group "nobody" might not be available. The
new --runas option allows to override the default "nobody" choice if
started as root.

Now that we allow this, drop the initgroups() call that was used to
add any additional groups for the given user, as that might now
grant unnecessarily broad permissions. For instance, several
distributions have a "kvm" group to allow regular user access to
/dev/kvm, and we don't need that in passt or pasta.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2022-05-19 16:27:20 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
37c228ada8 tap, tcp, udp, icmp: Cut down on some oversized buffers
The existing sizes provide no measurable differences in throughput
and packet rates at this point. They were probably needed as batched
implementations were not complete, but they can be decreased quite a
bit now.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2022-03-29 15:35:38 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
48582bf47f treewide: Mark constant references as const
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2022-03-29 15:35:38 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
965f603238 treewide: Add include guards
...at the moment, just for consistency with packet.h, icmp.h,
tcp.h and udp.h.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2022-03-29 15:35:38 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
bb70811183 treewide: Packet abstraction with mandatory boundary checks
Implement a packet abstraction providing boundary and size checks
based on packet descriptors: packets stored in a buffer can be queued
into a pool (without storage of its own), and data can be retrieved
referring to an index in the pool, specifying offset and length.

Checks ensure data is not read outside the boundaries of buffer and
descriptors, and that packets added to a pool are within the buffer
range with valid offset and indices.

This implies a wider rework: usage of the "queueing" part of the
abstraction mostly affects tap_handler_{passt,pasta}() functions and
their callees, while the "fetching" part affects all the guest or tap
facing implementations: TCP, UDP, ICMP, ARP, NDP, DHCP and DHCPv6
handlers.

Suggested-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2022-03-29 15:35:38 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
92074c16a8 tcp_splice: Close sockets right away on high number of open files
We can't take for granted that the hard limit for open files is
big enough as to allow to delay closing sockets to a timer.

Store the value of RTLIMIT_NOFILE we set at start, and use it to
understand if we're approaching the limit with pending, spliced
TCP connections. If that's the case, close sockets right away as
soon as they're not needed, instead of deferring this task to a
timer.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2022-03-29 15:35:38 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
3eb19cfd8a tcp, udp, util: Enforce 24-bit limit on socket numbers
This should never happen, but there are no formal guarantees: ensure
socket numbers are below SOCKET_MAX.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2022-03-29 15:35:38 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
d2e40bb8d9 conf, util, tap: Implement --trace option for extra verbose logging
--debug can be a bit too noisy, especially as single packets or
socket messages are logged: implement a new option, --trace,
implying --debug, that enables all debug messages.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2022-03-25 13:21:13 +01:00
Stefano Brivio
745a9ba428 pasta: By default, quit if filesystem-bound net namespace goes away
This should be convenient for users managing filesystem-bound network
namespaces: monitor the base directory of the namespace and exit if
the namespace given as PATH or NAME target is deleted. We can't add
an inotify watch directly on the namespace directory, that won't work
with nsfs.

Add an option to disable this behaviour, --no-netns-quit.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2022-02-21 13:41:13 +01:00
Stefano Brivio
89678c5157 conf, udp: Introduce basic DNS forwarding
For compatibility with libslirp/slirp4netns users: introduce a
mechanism to map, in the UDP routines, an address facing guest or
namespace to the first IPv4 or IPv6 address resulting from
configuration as resolver. This can be enabled with the new
--dns-forward option.

This implies that sourcing and using DNS addresses and search lists,
passed via command line or read from /etc/resolv.conf, is not bound
anymore to DHCP/DHCPv6/NDP usage: for example, pasta users might just
want to use addresses from /etc/resolv.conf as mapping target, while
not passing DNS options via DHCP.

Reflect this in all the involved code paths by differentiating
DHCP/DHCPv6/NDP usage from DNS configuration per se, and in the new
options --dhcp-dns, --dhcp-search for pasta, and --no-dhcp-dns,
--no-dhcp-search for passt.

This should be the last bit to enable substantial compatibility
between slirp4netns.sh and slirp4netns(1): pass the --dns-forward
option from the script too.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2022-02-21 13:41:13 +01:00
Stefano Brivio
0515adceaa passt, pasta: Namespace-based sandboxing, defer seccomp policy application
To reach (at least) a conceptually equivalent security level as
implemented by --enable-sandbox in slirp4netns, we need to create a
new mount namespace and pivot_root() into a new (empty) mountpoint, so
that passt and pasta can't access any filesystem resource after
initialisation.

While at it, also detach IPC, PID (only for passt, to prevent
vulnerabilities based on the knowledge of a target PID), and UTS
namespaces.

With this approach, if we apply the seccomp filters right after the
configuration step, the number of allowed syscalls grows further. To
prevent this, defer the application of seccomp policies after the
initialisation phase, before the main loop, that's where we expect bad
things to happen, potentially. This way, we get back to 22 allowed
syscalls for passt and 34 for pasta, on x86_64.

While at it, move #syscalls notes to specific code paths wherever it
conceptually makes sense.

We have to open all the file handles we'll ever need before
sandboxing:

- the packet capture file can only be opened once, drop instance
  numbers from the default path and use the (pre-sandbox) PID instead

- /proc/net/tcp{,v6} and /proc/net/udp{,v6}, for automatic detection
  of bound ports in pasta mode, are now opened only once, before
  sandboxing, and their handles are stored in the execution context

- the UNIX domain socket for passt is also bound only once, before
  sandboxing: to reject clients after the first one, instead of
  closing the listening socket, keep it open, accept and immediately
  discard new connection if we already have a valid one

Clarify the (unchanged) behaviour for --netns-only in the man page.

To actually make passt and pasta processes run in a separate PID
namespace, we need to unshare(CLONE_NEWPID) before forking to
background (if configured to do so). Introduce a small daemon()
implementation, __daemon(), that additionally saves the PID file
before forking. While running in foreground, the process itself can't
move to a new PID namespace (a process can't change the notion of its
own PID): mention that in the man page.

For some reason, fork() in a detached PID namespace causes SIGTERM
and SIGQUIT to be ignored, even if the handler is still reported as
SIG_DFL: add a signal handler that just exits.

We can now drop most of the pasta_child_handler() implementation,
that took care of terminating all processes running in the same
namespace, if pasta started a shell: the shell itself is now the
init process in that namespace, and all children will terminate
once the init process exits.

Issuing 'echo $$' in a detached PID namespace won't return the
actual namespace PID as seen from the init namespace: adapt
demo and test setup scripts to reflect that.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2022-02-21 13:41:13 +01:00
Stefano Brivio
caa22aa644 tcp, udp, util: Fixes for bitmap handling on big-endian, casts
Bitmap manipulating functions would otherwise refer to inconsistent
sets of bits on big-endian architectures. While at it, fix up a
couple of casts.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2022-01-26 16:30:59 +01:00
Stefano Brivio
627e18fa8a passt: Add cppcheck target, test, and address resulting warnings
...mostly false positives, but a number of very relevant ones too,
in tcp_get_sndbuf(), tcp_conn_from_tap(), and siphash PREAMBLE().

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-10-21 09:41:13 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
dd942eaa48 passt: Fix build with gcc 7, use std=c99, enable some more Clang checkers
Unions and structs, you all have names now.

Take the chance to enable bugprone-reserved-identifier,
cert-dcl37-c, and cert-dcl51-cpp checkers in clang-tidy.

Provide a ffsl() weak declaration using gcc built-in.

Start reordering includes, but that's not enough for the
llvm-include-order checker yet.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-10-21 04:26:08 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
087b5f4dbb LICENSES: Add license text files, add missing notices, fix SPDX tags
SPDX tags don't replace license files. Some notices were missing and
some tags were not according to the SPDX specification, too.

Now reuse --lint from the REUSE tool (https://reuse.software/) passes.

Reported-by: Martin Hauke <mardnh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-10-20 08:29:30 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
54a19002df conf: Add -P, --pid, to specify a file where own PID is written to
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-10-14 13:20:34 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
f45891cf26 conf, tcp, udp: Add --no-map-gw to disable mapping gateway address to host
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-10-14 13:19:52 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
675174d4ba conf, tap: Split netlink and pasta functions, allow interface configuration
Move netlink routines to their own file, and use netlink to configure
or fetch all the information we need, except for the TUNSETIFF ioctl.

Move pasta-specific functions to their own file as well, add
parameters and calls to configure the tap interface in the namespace.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-10-14 13:15:12 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
580581fd96 conf: Avoid getifaddrs(), split L2/L3 address fetching, get filtered dumps
getifaddrs() needs to allocate heap memory, and gets a ton of results
we don't need. Use explicit netlink messages with "strict checking"
instead.

While at it, separate L2/L3 address handling, so that we don't fetch
MAC addresses for IPv6, and also use netlink instead of ioctl() to
get the MAC address.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-10-10 01:13:27 +02:00
Giuseppe Scrivano
9a175cc2ce pasta: Allow specifying paths and names of namespaces
Based on a patch from Giuseppe Scrivano, this adds the ability to:

- specify paths and names of target namespaces to join, instead of
  a PID, also for user namespaces, with --userns

- request to join or create a network namespace only, without
  entering or creating a user namespace, with --netns-only

- specify the base directory for netns mountpoints, with --nsrun-dir

Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan@redhat.com>
[sbrivio: reworked logic to actually join the given namespaces when
 they're not created, implemented --netns-only and --nsrun-dir,
 updated pasta demo script and man page]
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-10-07 04:05:15 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
d4d61480b6 tcp, tap: Turn tcp_probe_mem() into sock_probe_mem(), use for AF_UNIX socket too
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-10-05 20:02:03 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
dd581730e5 tap: Completely de-serialise input message batches
Until now, messages would be passed to protocol handlers in a single
batch only if they happened to be dequeued in a row. Packets
interleaved between different connections would result in multiple
calls to the same protocol handler for a single connection.

Instead, keep track of incoming packet descriptors, arrange them in
sequences, and call protocol handlers only as we completely sorted
input messages in batches.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-09-27 01:28:02 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
2dbed699e7 passt: Align pkt_buf to PAGE_SIZE (start and size), try to fit in huge pages
If transparent huge pages are available, madvise() will do the trick.

While at it, decrease EPOLL_EVENTS for the main loop from 10 to 8,
for slightly better socket fairness.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-09-27 01:28:02 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
e5c941b9f8 passt: Increase TAP_BUF_BYTES to 256 maximum-sized descriptors
...this actually improves performance.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-09-19 02:04:43 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
5e23b1ef44 tap: Fix calculation of number of tap scatter-gather IO messages
Messages are typically smaller than ETH_MAX_MTU.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-09-09 15:40:04 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
1e49d194d0 passt, pasta: Introduce command-line options and port re-mapping
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-09-01 17:00:27 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
d372c42460 tap: Increase amount of tap receive buffers to 128
...boom. To make it slightly more reasonable, shrink struct tap_msg
down a bit, and move the main message array away from the stack of
tap_handler_passt().

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-07-27 00:48:06 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
64a0ba3b27 udp: Introduce recvmmsg()/sendmmsg(), zero-copy path from socket
Packets are received directly onto pre-cooked, static buffers
for IPv4 (with partial checksum pre-calculation) and IPv6 frames,
with pre-filled Ethernet addresses and, partially, IP headers,
and sent out from the same buffers with sendmmsg(), for both
passt and pasta (non-local traffic only) modes.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-07-21 12:01:04 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
33482d5bf2 passt: Add PASTA mode, major rework
PASTA (Pack A Subtle Tap Abstraction) provides quasi-native host
connectivity to an otherwise disconnected, unprivileged network
and user namespace, similarly to slirp4netns. Given that the
implementation is largely overlapping with PASST, no separate binary
is built: 'pasta' (and 'passt4netns' for clarity) both link to
'passt', and the mode of operation is selected depending on how the
binary is invoked. Usage example:

	$ unshare -rUn
	# echo $$
	1871759

	$ ./pasta 1871759	# From another terminal

	# udhcpc -i pasta0 2>/dev/null
	# ping -c1 pasta.pizza
	PING pasta.pizza (64.190.62.111) 56(84) bytes of data.
	64 bytes from 64.190.62.111 (64.190.62.111): icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=34.6 ms

	--- pasta.pizza ping statistics ---
	1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
	rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 34.575/34.575/34.575/0.000 ms
	# ping -c1 spaghetti.pizza
	PING spaghetti.pizza(2606:4700:3034::6815:147a (2606:4700:3034::6815:147a)) 56 data bytes
	64 bytes from 2606:4700:3034::6815:147a (2606:4700:3034::6815:147a): icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=29.0 ms

	--- spaghetti.pizza ping statistics ---
	1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
	rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 28.967/28.967/28.967/0.000 ms

This entails a major rework, especially with regard to the storage of
tracked connections and to the semantics of epoll(7) references.

Indexing TCP and UDP bindings merely by socket proved to be
inflexible and unsuitable to handle different connection flows: pasta
also provides Layer-2 to Layer-2 socket mapping between init and a
separate namespace for local connections, using a pair of splice()
system calls for TCP, and a recvmmsg()/sendmmsg() pair for UDP local
bindings. For instance, building on the previous example:

	# ip link set dev lo up
	# iperf3 -s

	$ iperf3 -c ::1 -Z -w 32M -l 1024k -P2 | tail -n4
	[SUM]   0.00-10.00  sec  52.3 GBytes  44.9 Gbits/sec  283             sender
	[SUM]   0.00-10.43  sec  52.3 GBytes  43.1 Gbits/sec                  receiver

	iperf Done.

epoll(7) references now include a generic part in order to
demultiplex data to the relevant protocol handler, using 24
bits for the socket number, and an opaque portion reserved for
usage by the single protocol handlers, in order to track sockets
back to corresponding connections and bindings.

A number of fixes pertaining to TCP state machine and congestion
window handling are also included here.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-07-17 11:04:22 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
19d254bbbb passt: Add support for multiple instances in different network namespaces
...sharing the same filesystem. Instead of a fixed path for the UNIX
domain socket, passt now uses a path with a counter, probing for
existing instances, and picking the first free one.

The demo script is updated accordingly -- it can now be started several
times to create multiple namespaces with an instance of passt each,
with addressing reflecting separate subnets, and NDP proxying between
them.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-05-21 11:14:51 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
9010054ea4 dhcp, ndp, dhcpv6: Support for multiple DNS servers, search list
Add support for a variable amount of DNS servers, including zero,
from /etc/resolv.conf, in DHCP, NDP and DHCPv6 implementations.

Introduce support for domain search list for DHCP (RFC 3397),
NDP (RFC 8106), and DHCPv6 (RFC 3646), also sourced from
/etc/resolv.conf.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-05-21 11:14:47 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
e07f539ae0 udp, passt: Introduce socket packet buffer, avoid getsockname() for UDP
This is in preparation for scatter-gather IO on the UDP receive path:
save a getsockname() syscall by setting a flag if we get the numbering
of all bound sockets in a strict sequence (expected, in practice) and
repurpose the tap buffer to be also a socket receive buffer, passing
it down to protocol handlers.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-04-30 14:52:18 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
605af213c5 udp: Connection tracking for ephemeral, local ports, and related fixes
As we support UDP forwarding for packets that are sent to local
ports, we actually need some kind of connection tracking for UDP.
While at it, this commit introduces a number of vaguely related fixes
for issues observed while trying this out. In detail:

- implement an explicit, albeit minimalistic, connection tracking
  for UDP, to allow usage of ephemeral ports by the guest and by
  the host at the same time, by binding them dynamically as needed,
  and to allow mapping address changes for packets with a loopback
  address as destination

- set the guest MAC address whenever we receive a packet from tap
  instead of waiting for an ARP request, and set it to broadcast on
  start, otherwise DHCPv6 might not work if all DHCPv6 requests time
  out before the guest starts talking IPv4

- split context IPv6 address into address we assign, global or site
  address seen on tap, and link-local address seen on tap, and make
  sure we use the addresses we've seen as destination (link-local
  choice depends on source address). Similarly, for IPv4, split into
  address we assign and address we observe, and use the address we
  observe as destination

- introduce a clock_gettime() syscall right after epoll_wait() wakes
  up, so that we can remove all the other ones and pass the current
  timestamp to tap and socket handlers -- this is additionally needed
  by UDP to time out bindings to ephemeral ports and mappings between
  loopback address and a local address

- rename sock_l4_add() to sock_l4(), no semantic changes intended

- include <arpa/inet.h> in passt.c before kernel headers so that we
  can use <netinet/in.h> macros to check IPv6 address types, and
  remove a duplicate <linux/ip.h> inclusion

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-04-29 17:15:26 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
50bcddabc9 passt: Use uint32_t for IPv4 context addresses
...so that we can compare them directly with a struct in_addr.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-04-29 17:15:26 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
38b50dba47 passt: Spare some syscalls, add some optimisations from profiling
Avoid a bunch of syscalls on forwarding paths by:

- storing minimum and maximum file descriptor numbers for each
  protocol, fall back to SO_PROTOCOL query only on overlaps

- allocating a larger receive buffer -- this can result in more
  coalesced packets than sendmmsg() can take (UIO_MAXIOV, i.e. 1024),
  so make sure we don't exceed that within a single call to protocol
  tap handlers

- nesting the handling loop in tap_handler() in the receive loop,
  so that we have better chances of filling our receive buffer in
  fewer calls

- skipping the recvfrom() in the UDP handler on EPOLLERR -- there's
  nothing to be done in that case

and while at it:

- restore the 20ms timer interval for periodic (TCP) events, I
  accidentally changed that to 100ms in an earlier commit

- attempt using SO_ZEROCOPY for UDP -- if it's not available,
  sendmmsg() will succeed anyway

- fix the handling of the status code from sendmmsg(), if it fails,
  we'll try to discard the first message, hence return 1 from the
  UDP handler

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-04-23 22:22:37 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
1f7cf04d34 passt: Introduce packet batching mechanism
Receive packets in batches from AF_UNIX, check if they can be sent
with a single syscall, and batch them up with sendmmsg() in case.

A bit rudimentary, currently only implemented for UDP, but it seems
to work.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-04-22 13:39:36 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
1d807fc720 passt: Introduce ICMP echo proxy
It's nice to be able to confirm connectivity using ICMP or ICMPv6
echo requests, and "ping" sockets on Linux (IPPROTO_ICMP datagram)
allow us to do that without any special capability.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-03-18 12:58:03 +01:00
Stefano Brivio
cd14bff5ea tcp: Add struct for TCP execution context, move hash_secret to it
We don't need to keep small data as static variables, move the only
small variable we have so far to the new struct.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-03-17 10:57:41 +01:00
Stefano Brivio
105b916361 passt: New design and implementation with native Layer 4 sockets
This is a reimplementation, partially building on the earlier draft,
that uses L4 sockets (SOCK_DGRAM, SOCK_STREAM) instead of SOCK_RAW,
providing L4-L2 translation functionality without requiring any
security capability.

Conceptually, this follows the design presented at:
	https://gitlab.com/abologna/kubevirt-and-kvm/-/blob/master/Networking.md

The most significant novelty here comes from TCP and UDP translation
layers. In particular, the TCP state and translation logic follows
the intent of being minimalistic, without reimplementing a full TCP
stack in either direction, and synchronising as much as possible the
TCP dynamic and flows between guest and host kernel.

Another important introduction concerns addressing, port translation
and forwarding. The Layer 4 implementations now attempt to bind on
all unbound ports, in order to forward connections in a transparent
way.

While at it:
- the qemu 'tap' back-end can't be used as-is by qrap anymore,
  because of explicit checks now introduced in qemu to ensure that
  the corresponding file descriptor is actually a tap device. For
  this reason, qrap now operates on a 'socket' back-end type,
  accounting for and building the additional header reporting
  frame length

- provide a demo script that sets up namespaces, addresses and
  routes, and starts the daemon. A virtual machine started in the
  network namespace, wrapped by qrap, will now directly interface
  with passt and communicate using Layer 4 sockets provided by the
  host kernel.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-02-16 09:28:55 +01:00
Stefano Brivio
d02e059ddc passt: Add IPv6 and NDP support, further fixes for IPv4 CT
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-02-16 07:58:05 +01:00
Stefano Brivio
6709ade2bd merd: Rename to PASST
Plug A Simple Socket Transport.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-02-16 07:58:01 +01:00