Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 15:57:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Luke <luked@pobox.com> To: Luke <luked@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting up a jail's IP address? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.60.0408181555450.972@ukato.freeshell.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.60.0408181523370.972@ukato.freeshell.org> References: <Pine.NEB.4.60.0408181523370.972@ukato.freeshell.org>
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> The first problem I'm having is that according to every jail tutorial I've > seen so far, I'm supposed to bind the IP address of the jail to a NIC. > Well... both of my NICs already have IP addresses bound to them, so ifconfig > always fails with "ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists". Okay, I figured this one out. The jail was active at the time. Once I shut down the jail I had no trouble binding it. > The second problem is that I'm not entirely sure which network card I would > bind the jail to anyway. The jail has to have an internal IP address, I > assume, but it needs to talk to the outside world so my first instinct is to > bind it to the network card that's hooked to the outside network. That would > mean binding two addresses that aren't even on the same network to one card, > and that sounds like it might be problematic. I'm still curious about which NIC is the proper one to bind the jail to. Does it matter?
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