jails in 6.3 and 7.0

[Nikos Vassiliadis]

On Wednesday 14 November 2007 20:24:14 Erik Cederstrand wrote:
> 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-S
>tack-Virtualization
>
> In short: not ready yet.

But, already usable to a great extent.

Nikos