First of all trying to teach your self about LAN & jail usage using
[CURRENT] is the wrong version of FreeBSD to be using because it's the
bleeding edge where all the OS updates are tested. You should be using
10.3 or soon to be published 11.0. With CURRENT you can't tell if
problems are caused by you not configuring something correctly or you
fell into a OS bug.
Now if you have a LAN & jail setup working on a RELEASE version and you
really think your problem is caused by a bug in CURRENT then you need to
come out and state that. But based on the tone of your post that is not
the case.
Secondly, the "current" list is the incorrect list to be posting this
type of question. You should post this to the "questions" or the "jail"
list.
The ping command from within a jail is a considered a security risk and
disabled by jail(8) design.
It seems to me that you are mixing 2 separate problems, LAN
configuration and jail configuration. You need to first get your LAN
nodes talking to each other and with the host, before you add jail(8)
into the mix.
The standard LAN configuration runs a DHCP server on the host to assign
private IP address to the LAN PC's when they power on.
Since your host box functions as a [gateway box] with a LAN behind it
you need to have gateway_enable="YES" in your hosts rc.conf file.
You also need a firewall to NAT the private LAN IP addresses to the
hosts public ISP issued IP address. I recommend ipfilter which is in the
base system, it's open source and runs on most all other Unix flavored
OS's making it very easy to use the same firewall rule set across other
OS's.
After you have your LAN nodes being able to ping the host and other
nodes on the LAN, and also access the pubic internet, Then is the time
to play with jails.
I recommend you use the jail utility sysutil/qjail port. It simplifies
jail management and is very user friendly. Be sure not to assign private
IP addresses to jails that are controlled by DHCP or the LAN node will
stop working when the jail starts using the same IP address.
A detailed description of how you intend to us jails would go a long way
to customizing any additional help you may require from posts to the
"questions" list.