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allow regular users to use network namespaces
I have an architecture using network namespaces (netns). I would like to allow regular users to do some operations in these netns.
I could write a script netns-exec.sh, inspired by this post, ...
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how unshare -i/-p/-U and -r works in realtime
Can anyone give examples of unshared command for -i, -p, -U and -r options.
I got only -m and -n examples to test my code.
And please mention any test cases to test IPv6 for unshared too.
Thanks,
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Access display from network namespace
I have several network namespaces in my Fedora 21 VM. How can I access display from whithin the network namespace?
# ip netns exec n1 xlogo
Error: Can't open display: localhost:10.0
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Virtual NIC's in Linux?
How do I create a VNIC interface in linux?
What I want to do is create an interface that is linked in some way to a physical interface but functions in its own namespace.
I know the physical ...
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How to avoid duplicate connection names? (32) Connection 'Auto Ethernet' is already active on enpXXX
Is there any way that I can make networkmanager to assign some unique names or device derrived name instead of Auto Ethernet so that we can avoid the names conflict?
After I've upgraded to Ubuntu ...
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list processes belonging to a network namespace
I am on Ubuntu 12.04, and the ip utility does not have ip netns identify <pid> option, I tried installing new iproute, but still, the option identify doesn't
seem to be working!.
If I were to ...
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What happens if the last process in a namespace exits?
I am running Linux.
I have a single process in a mount namespace.
I did in this process a mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /mountpoint.
What happens if the process exits and there are no more processes in ...
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running a process in another namespace
I would like to run a new process (for example an xterm) in another network namespace. This could be done like this:
sudo ip netns exec otherns sudo -u $USER xterm
This command looks a bit ...
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Using a VPN for certain applications via a network namespace
I am trying to use a network namespace for VPN-specific traffic, using this guide: https://schnouki.net/posts/2014/12/12/openvpn-for-a-single-application-on-linux/ on Debian.
Everything works with ...
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Sharing the loopback interface across network namespaces
I'm interested in using a separate namespace for running a VPN client, so that every process I run into that namespace accesses the Internet through the VPN. That part I've managed to accomplish.
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Is there a thing like “veth”, but without link-level headers?
When I use separate network namespace, I often set up networking there using veth:
ip link add type veth
ip link set veth0 netns 1
ifconfig veth1 192.168.60.2
ip route add default via 192.168.60.1
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Secure way to allow any user to run programs in specific network namespace
I have a cell modem connected to my server that I want to use as a means to get notification emails out when the landline dies.
To nicely separate normal network access and this exceptional cell ...
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Connect with D-Bus in a network namespace
I am using network namespaces such that I can capture network traffic of a single process. The namespace is connected through the "host" via a veth pair and has network connectivity through NAT. So ...
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How to create an internal multipath gateway
Basically trying to bend bridging and NATing to my will with quite a unique project.
I've simplified what I'm doing below (VM=Kali virtual machine for testing):
ZoneX's are network namespaces, ...
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rsyslog and netsnmp support for Linux namespaces
I have configured different net namespaces (netns) on my linux machine (Ubuntu) with different routes in each.
Now, if I want rsyslog and SNMP traps (netsnmp) to use one of the route from these ...
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Running HTTP process as a sole child in PID/NET namespace
First time posting here so I appreciate your help and patience. After reading about namespaces, looking on various forums including this thread and trial and error I'm still looking for answers for a ...
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Feed all traffic through OpenVPN for a specific network namespace only
I am trying to set up a VPN (using OpenVPN) such that all of the traffic, and only the traffic, to/from specific processes goes through the VPN; other processes should continue to use the physical ...
