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Changing how I use IP address with FreeBSD’s vnet – so IPv6 works

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The vnet (network subsystem virtualization infrastructure) on FreeBSD is both a blessing and a curse. For me, it isn’t working well with IPv6. I’ve hit issues with pf (since solved, I’m sure). It’s a useful feature but can be confusing. It helps to have lots of time to think about it and what you’re doing. I talked about this amongst the FreeBSD jail group and out of that came a blog post: The […]

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vnet jail on FreeBSD not letting pings through from another non-vnet jail

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NOTE: this problem was fixed by moving all the IP addresses to the bridge. See Changing how I use IP address with FreeBSD’s vnet – so IPv6 works I just restarted my pkg01 jail. Now Nagios can’t see it on IPv6. In fact, none of the jails on this host can now ping pkg01. This is FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE-p6 I did try DAD (based on this previous post, but that’s no help here). [17:19

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Trouble with vnet and pf

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In the past, I have tried vnet jails with pf, and hit trouble. I was never able to get pf to allow the vnet traffic when having a default ‘block log all’ rule. More recently, I encountered the same problem when using byhve. This time, I moved byhve to another host, which is not using pf and I am writing this post to document the issue. This post is based on two gists

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