Jails and IPv6

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Tue, 5 May 2009, Steve Bertrand wrote:

Hi,

> I've been using VMWare on Linux for quite some time, but I am fed up to
> the gills with the hassles I have to go through every time the box needs
> to be rebooted. I don't want to start a flame war, so let's just say
> that I'm already convinced of migrating to a solution that I don't need
> a Linux host for.
>
> I need to be able to run multiple instances of FreeBSD on a single box,
> but I *need* IPv6 to work on the virtual machines.
>
> I've read that this is now possible under 7.2. Is this really true?

yes.

> What I'm looking to do, is set up a new host as IPv6 only. I don't want
> to use dedicated hardware if I don't have to, so I'm asking about jails
> first.
> 
> Operationally, are there any success stories regarding v6 and jails that
> anyone could share?

Apart from that a FreeBSD Cluster system has been using it since the
beta time of the patch w/o a crash, a few people on freebsd-jail@ who
had been using it.

/bz

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