On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 09:39:57AM +0100, Stefano Brivio wrote:

It was established behaviour, and it's now the third report about it: users ask how to achieve the same functionality, and we don't have a better answer yet.

The idea behind declaring it deprecated to start with, I guess, was that we would eventually replace it by more flexible and generic configuration options, which is still planned. But there's nothing preventing us to alias this in the future to a particular configuration.

So, stop scaring users off, and un-deprecate this.

I concur. Reviewed-by: David Gibson

Link: https://archives.passt.top/passt-dev/20240925102009.62b9a0ce@elisabeth/ Link: https://github.com/rootless-containers/rootlesskit/pull/482#issuecomment-259... Link: https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/48838 Link: https://github.com/containers/podman/discussions/25243 Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio --- conf.c | 3 +-- passt.1 | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/conf.c b/conf.c index dcfc1d6..db7950e 100644 --- a/conf.c +++ b/conf.c @@ -966,8 +966,7 @@ pasta_opts: " -U, --udp-ns SPEC UDP port forwarding to init namespace\n" " SPEC is as described above\n" " default: auto\n" - " --host-lo-to-ns-lo DEPRECATED:\n" - " Translate host-loopback forwards to\n" + " --host-lo-to-ns-lo Translate host-loopback forwards to\n" " namespace loopback\n" " --userns NSPATH Target user namespace to join\n" " --netns PATH|NAME Target network namespace to join\n" diff --git a/passt.1 b/passt.1 index 63a3a01..395c0c6 100644 --- a/passt.1 +++ b/passt.1 @@ -633,7 +633,7 @@ Configure UDP port forwarding from target namespace to init namespace. Default is \fBauto\fR.

.TP -.BR \-\-host-lo-to-ns-lo " " (DEPRECATED) +.BR \-\-host-lo-to-ns-lo If specified, connections forwarded with \fB\-t\fR and \fB\-u\fR from the host's loopback address will appear on the loopback address in the guest as well. Without this option such forwarded packets will appear

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