FreeBSD

In previous article I’ve explained how to add IPv6 to your server, now it’s time to show you how to assign IPv6 address to Jail running on your IPv6 host. I’m using ezjail at this moment to manage my Jails. If you’re like me you can use following command to assign already configured IPv6 address to your Jail at creation time: ezjail-admin create JAILNAME "em0|IPV4ADDRESS,em0|2a01:4f8:140:54c7::2" If you already have Jail created and wish to add address to it afterwards you can edit jail configuration file which should be located in /usr/local/etc/ezjail/JAILNAME. Just add IPv6 address to the list of interfaces: ...

This article will be one of the few to come in the near future. I’m in the process of switching my VPS servers from various VPS providers to dedicate box I’ve leased at Hetzner. Up until now I’ve mostly used CentOS on my server systems but it is time to switch to FreeBSD now, various reasons but that’s a topic for another article. I figured out how to better start “mini series” than with basics, that is, with network configuration. Since I strongly believe we need to move to IPv6 at some point I always take additional time to configure all of my services to be available on IPv6 network. So without further ado, this is how to configure IPv6 on your FreeBSD box at Hetzner. ...