Pretty cool article by Josh Pearce:

“DIY Home Router with NixOS”

https://www.jjpdev.com/posts/home-router-nixos/

#NixOS #Linux #DataCom #NetStuff

Home Network Part 1 - DIY Home Router with NixOS - JJP Software

Some claim #SLIRP has poor performance. Would be interesting to do some kind of benchmark.

#Qemu #Virtualization #DataCom #NetStuff #MacOS

Pretty cool net project:

“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.”

https://passt.top/

#Linux #Unix #DataCom #NetStuff

passt - Plug A Simple Socket Transport

passt and pasta unprivileged (rootless) user-mode networking for VMs and containers, replacement for slirp, slirp4netns, libslirp, integrates with qemu, libvirt, Podman, Kata Containers