freebsd jails

[Greg Barniskis]

Denzil Kelly wrote:
> I need to implement web content filtering using squidguard and/or
> dansguardian for several locations. Each site has different filtering
> requirements. I want to know if it is possible to do this using a jail for
> each site(provided that I have sufficiently powerful hardware). 

Should not be too difficult to implement.

> I want to
> have a different IP address for each jail. 

A unique IP for each jail is required in any case.

> If this is possible do I need to
> have a different NIC for each jail?

Nope. Just use aliases in rc.conf for the one NIC. For example, if I 
have a NIC fxp0, on a host with two jails:

ifconfig_fxp0="inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0"
ifconfig_fxp0_alias0="inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.255"
ifconfig_fxp0_alias1="inet 192.168.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.255"

Note the alias masks are all ones -- that's not a typo.


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