VNET jails and PF service

Kristof Provost kristof at sigsegv.be
Thu Dec 13 12:06:04 UTC 2018


On 2018-12-13 12:35:05 (+0100), Goran Mekić <meka at tilda.center> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 09:30:12AM +0100, Kristof Provost wrote:
> > On 2018-12-13 01:02:32 (+0100), Goran Mekić <meka at tilda.center> wrote:
> > > I can't start PF as service from vnet jail. I have devfs rule to unhide
> > > bpf (for dhclient) and pf that the jail is using. I can run "pfctl -e -f
> > > /etc/pf.conf" but "service pf start" fails with:
> > >
> > > kldload: can't load pf: Operation not permitted
> > > /etc/rc.d/pf: WARNING: Unable to load kernel module pf
> > >
> > Yes, jails can't load kernel modules, for obvious reasons.
> > Your host needs to load the pf module, then the jail will be able to use
> > it.
> 
> I did load it on the host, that's why "pfctl -e -f /etc/pf.conf" works
> in the jail, but "service pf start" doesn't.

I can't seem to reproduce that. How did you start your jail?

(The output of 'jls -na' might be helpful too)

Regards,
Kristof


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