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How to configure a globally routable FreeBSD 12 Jail with IPv6, VNET and ZFS

It's holiday season in Sri Lanka. I really got a free time to play with one of my favorite OS FreeBSD. For a long time I had idea to setup a FreeBSD Jail. I went through some online documentations. there was a good article on nixCraft for FreeBSD 11 (it didn't worked for me on FreeBSD 12), so I used that to get idea about initial setup especially ZFS configuration, also I looked at FreeBSD official example directory for jails at /usr/share/examples/jails and my own configuration IPv6 setup to make it globally routable The steps to create a jail as follows Check the feasibility of setting up a jail with globally routable Install required tools Create a ZFS data set for jails Create the base jail files Configure the base jail and create a new jail files Configure the jail.conf on the host Turn on jail service and start a jail Login to a jail and play with it Step 1: Check the feasibility of setting up a jail with globally routable Setting up a jail with VNET re