From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 28 11:35:49 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6ABF106564A for ; Mon, 28 May 2012 11:35:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darrenr@freebsd.org) Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com (out3-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81E3A8FC12 for ; Mon, 28 May 2012 11:35:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.43]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0448021393 for ; Mon, 28 May 2012 07:35:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1.nyi.mail.srv.osa ([10.202.2.160]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 28 May 2012 07:35:49 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to :mime-version:to:subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=H8uPxkZtATLjrgzpTM06ZjsERJ8=; b=j3hgeqj5TL7rchvlh R1UB/luPewLTM452sDv4BsE0KqbvBUBoK0S5QYH0ywOtH06ZQgfCrS5+k+8rxt5Q GuGTbBzAb2JBSv4ap1icODB9JS4g2Zkgnhp2XhUgOkuoOzvV50ieiVttpw5qMI7c CE163uwOhgQzLwI8JvuVT12y0k= X-Sasl-enc: QFINAyn/VA3QHPnYSdokRcBoMxcZpqinGp8QdFUiVfZD 1338204948 Received: from [192.168.1.124] (unknown [202.45.110.141]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 5613C8E01CE for ; Mon, 28 May 2012 07:35:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4FC36377.1080306@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 21:37:27 +1000 From: Darren Reed Organization: FreeBSD User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Point-to-point connection between jails? X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: darrenr@freebsd.org List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 11:35:49 -0000 I've looked through the list of network interfaces that are supported with FreeBSD and none seem to meet my needs. What I want is a network interface that I can configure up in jail A with address 10.1.1.1 and for which I can configure a mate in jail B with the address 10.2.2.2 and use the network interface as the means by which two jails can directly communicate with each other without the need to send any packets out of the machine. Or another way to do this would be to have a virtual network (something like the "internal network" that VirtualBox has or the host only network supported by VMWware Workstation) defined somewhere and for there to be a specific driver that could be configured and attached to a jail and that virtual network so that you could have N:M communication between jails. Is what I'm looking for already present and google is failing me or is the above functionality the basis for future work, be it planned or otherwise? Darren