Cannot ping6 inside jail

[Ernie Luzar]

Bertram Scharpf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I couldn't find anything about this by Google or in the man
> pages.
> 
> Inside a jail:
> 
>   # ping6 ::1
>   ping6: socket: Protocol not supported
> 
> When I ask "ifconfig", there are no IPv6 adresses.
> 
> What did I miss?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Bertram
> 
> 

If your talking about issuing the ping command from within a non-vimage 
jail then its denied by design as a security risk. You have to enable 
allow.raw.sockets to get ping command to work.