From c7a82d99e1fa759a0766c6b42f8bcc046d21a86a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: erdgeist Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 18:32:38 +0000 Subject: document the new jail(8) behaviour regarding the interface prefix on the ip address --- man8/ezjail-admin.8 | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'man8/ezjail-admin.8') diff --git a/man8/ezjail-admin.8 b/man8/ezjail-admin.8 index 5cda975..5feab39 100644 --- a/man8/ezjail-admin.8 +++ b/man8/ezjail-admin.8 @@ -184,13 +184,15 @@ assign several several IPv4 or IPv6 addresses to a jail, by separating them with commas. Previous versions of FreeBSD allowed only a single IPv4 address per jail. .Pp -The addresses of the jail are not configured on the host. +From FreeBSD 9.0 the ipaddresses may be prefixed with an interface name, followed +by the pipe symbol. It will then automatically be configured as an alias on that +interface when the jail starts. Else .Nm will display a warning if the requested address is not found on any interface, and the jail will probably not start. .Pp It is common to bind jails to loopback addresses, so they provide services -visible to other jails only. +visible to other jails only. .El .Pp The following options are available: -- cgit v1.2.3