From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 22 13:16:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B85D816A5F2 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:16:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexjeffburke@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB37D43E8F for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:13:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alexjeffburke@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id f31so93451pyh for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 05:13:49 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=hr4aodLcfO0VT5LnNKIeKSrpMoVj8tvK7LIbH5qrB5DTTF67DTLS2v8HHWmexQWO2TRwvbbDwmwBlr5IdSyrCBs7jPjjVRQk5UVYG4KhJfJRdc93YwGDOlCam/1sp4eCOa1F7+w5IvTlDY3GmzmY0UTLlbt21EYe/zYyT4fPHNM= Received: by 10.35.96.11 with SMTP id y11mr949244pyl.1164201228964; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 05:13:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.35.49.18 with HTTP; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 05:13:48 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:13:48 +0000 From: "Alex Burke" To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Virtual switch on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:16:57 -0000 Hi, What I would like to do is have a sort of virtual switch emulated on my machine - to this I would like to attach a virtual interface on the host system, and then I am hoping that would allow me to have some sort of stable environment for jails, because I could then alias the jails' IP addresses to the virtual adapter and it would be like a network in its own right with many IP addresses for many jails. The reason I cannot do this under the host is that my main network adapters are all DHCP, and I would like to be able to access the jails any time. I would like to remove the dependency of the jails on the host environments network interface configuration. I honestly do not know whether this is possible, and having reviewed the VLAN documentation, netgraph and tun/tap, I don't know where to start let alone if the facilities are there. Please CC me in any replies as I am not subscribed to this list. Thanks, Alex J Burke.