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May
16
2020
Network Namespaces - Part Three
Posted by ebal at 21:05:31 in blog, planet_ellak, planet_Sysadmin, planet_fsfe

Previously on … Network Namespaces - Part Two we provided internet access to the namespace, enabled a different DNS than our system and run a graphical application (xterm/firefox) from within.

The scope of this article is to run vpn service from this namespace. We will run a vpn-client and try to enable firewall rules inside.

ip-netns07

dsvpn

My VPN choice of preference is dsvpn and you can read in the below blog post, how to setup it.

dsvpn is a TCP, point-to-point VPN, using a symmetric key.

The instructions in this article will give you an understanding how to run a different vpn service.

Find your external IP

Before running the vpn client, le...

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May
12
2020
Network Namespaces - Part Two
Posted by ebal at 21:45:35 in blog, planet_ellak, planet_Sysadmin, planet_fsfe

Previously on… Network Namespaces - Part One we discussed how to create an isolated network namespace and use a veth interfaces to talk between the host system and the namespace.

In this article we continue our story and we will try to connect that namespace to the internet.

recap previous commands

ip netns add ebal
ip link add v-eth0 type veth peer name v-ebal
ip link set v-ebal netns ebal
ip addr add 10.10.10.10/24 dev v-eth0
ip netns exec ebal ip addr add 10.10.10.20/24 dev v-ebal
ip link set v-eth0 up
ip netns exec ebal ip link set v-ebal up

Access namespace

ip netns exec ebal bash

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May
09
2020
Network Namespaces - Part One
Posted by ebal at 08:47:13 in blog, planet_ellak, planet_Sysadmin, planet_fsfe

Have you ever wondered how containers work on the network level? How they isolate resources and network access? Linux namespaces is the magic behind all these and in this blog post, I will try to explain how to setup your own private, isolated network stack on your linux box.

notes based on ubuntu:20.04, root access.

current setup

Our current setup is similar to this

ip-netns00

List ethernet cards

ip address list

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 150...
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