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Date:      Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:19:30 +0100
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        Aiza <aiza21@comclark.com>
Cc:        kurt seel <kseel@governmentcostsolutions.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Ping from jail not permitted error
Message-ID:  <4BCAC092.9090701@infracaninophile.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <4BCA7D4A.6060309@comclark.com>
References:  <4BCA54DC.1000301@comclark.com>	<4BCA61FC.5000308@governmentcostsolutions.com> <4BCA7D4A.6060309@comclark.com>

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On 18/04/2010 04:32:26, Aiza wrote:
> kurt seel wrote:
>> Aiza wrote:
>>> My jail has public internet access because i can do pkg_add -r
>>> unix2dos and the package does install. But when I enter ping -c 2
>>> freebsd.org I get message "ping: socket: Operation not permitted"
>>> There is no firewall running in the jail.
>>>
>>> Any ideas would be helpful.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>
>>  ICMP is disallowed by defaut for jails, see the sysctl :
>> security.jail.allow_raw_sockets
>>  There are good reasons for this default, so if you test remember to
>> set it
>> back when you are done.
>>  Also, on a point of style, jails in their current form (see VIMAGE)
>> do not get a network stack of their own so they don't have a firewall but
>> share the hosts' network and firewall, etc.
>>
>>
> I don't have man vimage. Is this part of Freebsd?

It's in 8.0 and above -- VIMAGE is a kernel configuration option.
It's a work in progress.  See:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/Image/TODO?highlight=%28vnet%29

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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