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Date:      Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:01:18 +0100
From:      Paul Schenkeveld <freebsd@psconsult.nl>
To:        freebsd-jail@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: multiple jails with multiple network interfaces
Message-ID:  <20120123070117.GA79715@psconsult.nl>
In-Reply-To: <57939.69.209.76.5.1327292727.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu>
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On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:25:27PM -0600, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I have a FreeBSD 9.0 host that is registered in DNS to appear with
> multiple IP addresses:
> 
> host some.host.com
> 
> some.host.com has address a.b.c.x
> some.host.com has address a.b.d.x
> some.host.com has address a.b.e.x
> 
> I built multiple jails to run one service in each following mostly:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/jails-application.html
> 
> I am trying to start each of the jails with all network interfaces this
> machine has configured (with the same IP addressed as interfaces are
> configured on the host system). For that I have in jail related portion of
> /etc/rc.conf the following
> 
> jail_enable="YES"
> jail_set_hostname_allow="NO"
> jail_list="http ftp rsync pxe"
> jail_http_hostname="some.host.com"
> jail_http_ip="a.b.c.x,a.b.d.x,a.b.e.x"
> jail_http_rootdir="/jail/http"
> ...
> jail_ftp_hostname="some.host.com"
> jail_ftp_ip="a.b.c.x,a.b.d.x,a.b.e.x"
> jail_ftp_rootdir="/jail/ftp"
> ...
> 
> When I start jails:
> 
> /etc/rc.d/jail start
> 
> first in the list jail starts perfectly (and I can verify that service
> configured to run in it is accessible on all three public IP addresses of
> the machine), all other jails, however, fail to start with the message
> 
> some# /etc/rc.d/jail start
> Configuring jails:.
> Starting jails: some.host.com some.host.com some.host.com ...
> cannot start jail "ftp"
> .
> 
> If I only leave one IP address in each of the jais, they all start OK. If
> I configure some jails with different IP (on the same class C network),
> leaving first jail with multiple IP addresses, e.g.:
> 
> jail_http_hostname="some.host.com"
> jail_http_ip="a.b.c.x,a.b.d.x,a.b.e.x"
> jail_http_rootdir="/jail/http"
> ...
> jail_ftp_hostname="some.host.com"
> jail_ftp_ip="a.b.c.y"
> jail_ftp_rootdir="/jail/ftp"
> ...
> 
> all jails start OK (first with multiple IPs, and other with single
> different IP). If first (in order of start) jail is with single IP, and
> next jail is with multiple IPs including the IP of the first one:
> 
> jail_http_hostname="some.host.com"
> jail_http_ip="a.b.c.x"
> jail_http_rootdir="/jail/http"
> ...
> jail_ftp_hostname="some.host.com"
> jail_ftp_ip="a.b.c.x,a.b.d.x,a.b.e.x"
> jail_ftp_rootdir="/jail/ftp"
> ...
> 
> then jail with multiple IPs will not start.
> 
> 
> I tried to search, but I didn't find anybody mentioning having this
> problem or having it resolved of just having similar configuration with
> multiple IPs.
> 
> Is there something obviously wrong that I'm doing?
> 
> Is it possible that there is some restriction that will not allow me to
> have this configuration?

See jail(8):

    ip4.addr
	... It is only possible to start
	multiple jails with the same IP address, if none of the jails has
	more than this single overlapping IP address assigned to itself.

So jails can have the same IP4 address but that has to be the only IP4
address of that jail, otherwise all address must be unique.

Kind regards,

Paul Schenkeveld



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