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authorPaul Holzinger <pholzing@redhat.com>2022-01-27 15:13:55 +0100
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network create: allow multiple subnets
podman network create --subnet, --gateway and --ip-range can now be specified multiple times to join the network to more than one subnet. This is very useful if you want to use a dual stack network and assign a fixed ipv4 and ipv6 subnet. The order of the options is important here, the first --gateway/--ip-range will be assigned to the first subnet and so on. Signed-off-by: Paul Holzinger <pholzing@redhat.com>
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@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ The `macvlan` and `ipvlan` driver support the following options:
#### **--gateway**
Define a gateway for the subnet. If you want to provide a gateway address, you must also provide a
-*subnet* option.
+*subnet* option. Can be specified multiple times.
+The argument order of the **--subnet**, **--gateway** and **--ip-range** options must match.
#### **--internal**
@@ -56,7 +57,8 @@ automatically disabled.
#### **--ip-range**
Allocate container IP from a range. The range must be a complete subnet and in CIDR notation. The *ip-range* option
-must be used with a *subnet* option.
+must be used with a *subnet* option. Can be specified multiple times.
+The argument order of the **--subnet**, **--gateway** and **--ip-range** options must match.
#### **--label**
@@ -64,11 +66,13 @@ Set metadata for a network (e.g., --label mykey=value).
#### **--subnet**
-The subnet in CIDR notation.
+The subnet in CIDR notation. Can be specified multiple times to allocate more than one subnet for this network.
+The argument order of the **--subnet**, **--gateway** and **--ip-range** options must match.
+This is useful to set a static ipv4 and ipv6 subnet.
#### **--ipv6**
-Enable IPv6 (Dual Stack) networking.
+Enable IPv6 (Dual Stack) networking. If not subnets are given it will allocate a ipv4 and ipv6 subnet.
## EXAMPLE
@@ -102,6 +106,12 @@ $ podman network create --subnet 192.168.55.0/24 --ip-range 192.168.55.128/25
cni-podman5
```
+Create a network with a static ipv4 and ipv6 subnet and set a gateway.
+```
+$ podman network create --subnet 192.168.55.0/24 --gateway 192.168.55.3 --subnet fd52:2a5a:747e:3acd::/64 --gateway fd52:2a5a:747e:3acd::10
+podman4
+```
+
Create a Macvlan based network using the host interface eth0. Macvlan networks can only be used as root.
```
# podman network create -d macvlan -o parent=eth0 newnet