FreeBSD a server and bhyve

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 at 20:23, Pete Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote:

>
>
> On 8/11/20 5:49 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> > Hi infoomatic,
> >
> > Looks like I have to top-post so as to not mess the thread:
> >
> > The reason I need a VM is because I need to totally independent host,
> > with an independent name, with access to all ports of its own.
> > It looks like I need another public IP for that.
>
> It depends on your use case.  I have a single IPv4 address allocated to
> one of my systems and have setup various CNAME entries in DNS that all
> resolve to the same IP.  I think that's a pretty common design pattern
> for people who colo their own servers and host multiple services on them.
>
> the tricky part will be if you want to host multiple instances of the
> same service though (multiple webservers for example).  in that case
> you'll most likely need multiple IPv4 address assigned to your system.
>

That's exactly where I am.
Suppose I obtained another IP for the VM, how do I make the VM the only
host listening on that IP then?




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