vnet jail for local only or public access

Alexander Leidinger Alexander at leidinger.net
Fri Jul 17 13:23:16 UTC 2020


Quoting Ernie Luzar <luzar722 at gmail.com> (from Fri, 17 Jul 2020  
08:46:07 -0400):

> Trying to figure out how to configure a vnet jail so it is  
> restricted to only being able to talk to other vnet jails on the  
> same host IE: local only vnet jails. As different to being able to  
> access the public internet type of vnet jails.
>
> Using the bridge/epair method of connecting vnet jails to the host.
> [ based on this how-to ]
> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/vnet-jail-with-public-internet-access-using-the-bridge-epair-method.76071/
>
> It's my understanding that this behavior is controlled by if the  
> hosts interface connected to the public internet is added as a  
> member to the bridge the vnet jails epairXa interfaces were members  
> of.

Partly correct. You can also have a setup where your host is routing  
between what you call the public internet and the local only vnets.

> I tested this on a remote vm and found that it made no difference  
> one way or the other if the hosts interface connected to the public  
> internet was added as a member to the bridge or not. In both cases  
> the vnet jail had public internet access.

It shouldn't, if there is no routing involved.

Please show us "ifconfig -a" and "netstat -rn" of the host.

Bye,
Alexander.

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