From fcd432d110d2fffc65aa24c3898c628177d72e6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastiaan van Stijn Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 23:27:57 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Merge pull request #22707 from TimWolla/patch-1 User network does not work with IPv6 (cherry picked from commit ab090291dd15c76687672fec10eb9f4106c1cb21) Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn --- docs/userguide/networking/work-with-networks.md | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/userguide/networking/work-with-networks.md b/docs/userguide/networking/work-with-networks.md index 6cd669484c..867c5fa52f 100644 --- a/docs/userguide/networking/work-with-networks.md +++ b/docs/userguide/networking/work-with-networks.md @@ -228,7 +228,8 @@ $ docker run --net=isolated_nw --ip=172.25.3.3 -itd --name=container3 busybox As you can see you were able to specify the ip address for your container. As long as the network to which the container is connecting was created with a user specified subnet, you will be able to select the IPv4 and/or IPv6 address(es) -for your container when executing `docker run` and `docker network connect` commands. +for your container when executing `docker run` and `docker network connect` commands +by respectively passing the `--ip` and `--ip6` flags for IPv4 and IPv6. The selected IP address is part of the container networking configuration and will be preserved across container reload. The feature is only available on user defined networks, because they guarantee their subnets configuration does not change across daemon reload.