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Date:      Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:21:33 +0100
From:      Milan Obuch <freebsd-stable@dino.sk>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: jails and multple interfaces
Message-ID:  <200701311221.34003.freebsd-stable@dino.sk>
In-Reply-To: <45C0722B.3060504@sailorfej.net>
References:  <45C06A42.6000001@sailorfej.net> <200701311119.47888.freebsd-stable@dino.sk> <45C0722B.3060504@sailorfej.net>

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On Wednesday 31 January 2007 11:40, Jeffrey Williams wrote:
> Milan Obuch wrote:
> > On Wednesday 31 January 2007 11:06, Jeffrey Williams wrote:
> >> Hi Folks,
> >>
> >> I am trying to set a jail hosting server to support multiple jails for
> >> development testing.
> >>
> >> The server has two network interfaces, I am configuring one for host
> >> server to use, and the other with several aliased IPs, one for each of
> >> the jail servers.
> >>
> >> All the services running on the host are configured to bind to the host
> >> IP on the first interface.
> >>
...
> >
> > Why are you doing this? Are your addresses from the same network segment?
> > I am binding my jail addresses to loopback interface and route them -
> > this way you could easily start take-over jail on another machine and
> > change routing table (or use dynamic routing) to minimize downtime on
> > hardware upgrades, big OS upgrades etc. I do not consider this the best
> > way, but it just satisfy my needs.
> > Regards,
> > Milan
>
> I want to segregate the jail and jail host traffic on separate interfaces.
>

What do you mean with segregate? Why do you need them going through two 
physical interfaces? Maybe I just can't see my nose between eyes, but I do 
not understand the purpose of doing so.

> How do you route traffic off you loopback interface? by definition, this
> interface only allows the network stack to talk to itself?
>

There is nothing special there - my physical interface address is from one 
segment, there is route added on upstream router for loopback bound 
addresses. It is not true you are able to talk only to itself with loopback 
address, it is true only for loopback address (127.0.0.1/8). All my tests 
shows it works the way I want. Actually in jail you see only one IP address 
on an interfaces, and regardless which one, all traffic from jailed process 
uses this address as source address. Routing is done in host stack in any 
case.

Regards,
Milan

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