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Date:      Sun, 29 May 2016 16:45:48 -0600
From:      James Gritton <jamie@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-jail@freebsd.org
Cc:        =?UTF-8?Q?Sebasti=C3=A1n_Maruca?= <seba@econ.uba.ar>
Subject:   Re: deploy multiple vnets with VIMAGE/VNET + Production Ready?
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On 2016-05-29 09:15, Sebastián Maruca via freebsd-jail wrote:
> Hi to everyone!
> I want to deploy several "jailed" firewalls, where each one of them
> would contain at least three multiple virtual interfaces (associated
> with virtual internal nets) like "WAN", "LAN" and "DMZ" for example...
> First *innocent* question (I beg you pardon for my ignorance dealing
> with jails!) Can vnet/vimage help me deploy such a complex jailed
> environment???

Yes, I think that sounds like just the sort of complicated mess that 
vnet jails are best with.  It's all about per-jail virtual interfaces.

> Secod *innocent* question, so far so good, reading at  jail manpage
> (circa July 6, 2015/FreeBSD 10.3) it seems VNET/VIMAGE is fully
> integrated to the FreeBSD kernel, is VNET/VIMAGE ready for production
> level???
> As a side note, at the host level would a be some kind of API/service
> that would deal with pfctl in order to rule flows between all of
> them...

That's more of a maybe.  There are definitely still outstanding issues 
in the vimage world, especially regarding pf.  I don't use either one 
myself, so I'm just going by what I see on bug reports and the like.

- Jamie



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