jails in 6.3 and 7.0

[Erik Cederstrand]

Jonathan Horne wrote:
> I was reading a while back that the jails tcp system was getting an
> overhaul, possibly in the 7.0 release.  I don't remember all the
> particulars, but things along the lines to make jails function even
> more like a real (independant) system.  I believe one of the
> improvments might have been a separate virtual interface, thus
> allowing he jail to have its own pf configuration.
> 
> I've not seen anything else on this topic, so I was wondering if
> anyone might know if that's going to make in to 7 (and possibly
> backported to 6.3)?


You're thinking about the Network Stack Virtualization project:

http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2007-07-2007-10.html#Network-Stack-Virtualization

In short: not ready yet.

Erik