No more non-root networking modes?

[Glenn Washburn]

Hi all,

I'm just now noticing that earlier this year obsolete networking
transports were removed (commit 65eaac591b75). This included SLiRP,
which was to my knowledge the only transport that supported network
access as an unprivileged user (no privileged access needed to setup
the transport either). Am I wrong about that? If not, I'm curious as to
why functionality that could not be achieved by other means was
dropped? And if there are any work arounds? I can understand why other
transports that need privileged access to setup, but were inferior to
other existing transports would be removed. I write this as someone who
is currently using the SLiRP transport.

Glenn