Any patch for ICMP in a jail?

[Robert Watson]

On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Rus Foster wrote:

> Is there a patch that will allow ping from inside a jail on 5.x? Google
> didn't show anything? 

The problem is that, to generate pings, you have to have access to a raw
socket.  And unfortuantely, raw sockets imply access to a lot more than
just the ability to send/receive ICMP: a number of management components
in the IP stack assume that if you have a raw socket, you're also allowed
to configure those components.  Take a look at rip_ctloutput() in raw_ip.c
for some examples.  We have some local in-progress changes to modify this
as part of our capabilities work, but there's no timeline for integrating
it.  The best short-term suggestion would be to write a
privilege-separated ping tool -- a pingd running outside the jail,
providing UNIX domain sockets in each jail that needs the ability to ping; 
ping then becomes a client that RPC's to pingd. 

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert at fledge.watson.org      Network Associates Laboratories