Testing networking from a Jail

[kiboko]

Hello Freeness people,

How does one go about testing that a Jail instance is configured correctly and is able to route network traffic out to the internet?

Thank you

 

[pirateghost]

Ping gateway. Does it respond?

Ping external DNS server. Does it respond?

Ping Google.com. does it respond?

 

[kiboko]

Ping gateway. Does it respond?

Ping external DNS server. Does it respond?

Ping Google.com. does it respond?

How does one ping from the jail instance? I have not been able to get a terminal session into the jail instance.

In my case the problematic jail is a Plex Media Server instance and I can't figure out how to get a command line within the jail.

 

[pirateghost]

How does one ping from the jail instance? I have not been able to get a terminal session into the jail instance.

In my case the problematic jail is a Plex Media Server instance and I can't figure out how to get a command line within the jail.

Well, there are 2 ways. One of which is covered in the official documentation.
http://doc.freenas.org/9.10/freenas_jails.html#
By using the 'shell' button on the jail screen.

The second is covered ad nauseum in the forums:
SSH into FreeNAS, 'jls', and then 'jexec <idofjail> tcsh'

 

[kiboko]

How does one ping from the jail instance? I have not been able to get a terminal session into the jail instance.

In my case the problematic jail is a Plex Media Server instance and I can't figure out how to get a command line within the jail.

Okay I figured it out. I can jump into my jail and rest networking.