handbook 15.4 (jails)

[oiu-173b3 at myamail.com]

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Simon L. Nielsen <simon at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 2009.04.05 18:11:34 +0200, oiu-173b3 at myamail.com wrote:
>
> > I've just started to play with FreeBSD and want to comment that the
> handbook
> > is absolutely super and have provided me a great help! I'm very grateful
> for
> > your effort. I just wanted to point out that section 15.4 forgets to
> mention
> > to set the rc.conf option "jail_myjail_interface" when setting up jails.
>
> I don't think it forgets to set it as it's not required, and at least
> some (me included) think using jail_foo_interface is a bad idea as it
> has some non-obvious side-effects, and the issue is better handled by
> just "manually" setting up aliases on the required itnerfaces.
>

Sorry, I wasn't aware of this. Now that you've mentioned it, I've found some
mail archive discussions.


> That said, from a quick look you seem to be correct that the section
> the jail chapter doesn't seem to mention how to handle the IP address
> used by the jail, which it probably should.
>

Yeh, some best practices guidance on this in the handbook would be great!

Frank