Jail PR, sysinstall does not see network devices



Hello All:

I have an interesting issue and wondering if or where I should send /
submit a PR. Also, as this group is often used by people unfamiliar /
unwilling to use mailing lists, my work around.

Anyway:

When I set up a new jail, I followed the instructions as per the man page
and the handbook. In particular, once the jail is set up, one SHOULD be able
to use sysinstall from within the jail to add users, distributions, etc.

I tried this to add the ports collection to the jail. When I attempted this,
I was presented with the following error after specifying the main FTP site
to download:

"No network devices available!"

Further work to get packages, distributions etc. from within sysinstall
failed.

Running ifconfig showed that the aliased ip was working and I am able to
ping other sites etc. from within the jail.

The workaround is: Don't use sysinstall to add packages, distributions,
etc.. I am able to use pkg_add. Using pkg_add, I was able to add the
cvsup package. I was then able to bring in the ports via cvsup and add
individual packages from ports using the standard make install method.

I was wondering if anyone else has seen this in setting up a jail?

Cheers

JE

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