Jail source address selection in 8.1-RELEASE

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Steve Polyack wrote:

Hi,

> There appears to be a loosely documented sysctl 
> 'security.jail.param.ip4.saddrsel' which should limit source IP selection of 
> jails to their primary jail interface/IP.  The sysctl does not appear to do 
> anything, however:
>
> # sysctl security.jail.param.ip4.saddrsel=0
> ->
> # echo $?
> 0
> # sysctl security.jail.param.ip4.saddrsel
> #
> # sysctl -d security.jail.param.ip4.saddrsel
> security.jail.param.ip4.saddrsel: Do (not) use IPv4 source address selection 
> rather than the primary jail IPv4 address.
>
> Is this tunable only available when VIMAGE jails are built? The 8.1-RELEASE 
> Release Notes suggest it is for VIMAGE jail(8) containers, while 7.3-RELEASE 
> Release Notes suggest that it is available for the entire jail(8) subsystem 
> as 'security.jail.ip4_saddrsel', a different OID.

Don't use the systctl; the param tree only tells you which options are
available;  ip4.saddrsel is an option to the jail -c|-m command.

/bz

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