I started this document asking for help and while writing this I ended up finding a solution so i figured I’d share anyways. I followed this this guide to setup ipv6 for docker. In my case I have this in my daemon.json: { "ipv6": true, "fixed-cidr-v6": "fd00::/80" } AND!!! needs custom iptab…

Thanks for sharing this. I am sure it will come handy in the near future. My only suggestion is to create an issue in docker github under compose . They can triage as a bug or as a feature request.

There has been several bugs open and closed regarding the topic, including the one from the original post I made there’s also these. ipv6_address broken opened 01:41AM - 28 Sep 16 UTC (UTC) closed 11:42PM - 18 Ja…

[image] safaci2000: Finally, the last thing I forgot is that since i’m defining a new network, I need to also create an iptables rule Why do you need the masquerade rule if you use a global ipv6 prefix? If your addresses aren’t routable and you need to use masquerade then why use global addre…

I need a masquerade rule because i want traffic to show as it comes from the host it’s running on, not some arbitrary IPv6 address assigned to the container.

I will add one more note, though not sure if it covers all edge cases. I have noticed that setting network_mode: host seems to fix a lot of the IPv6 issues. Though it does feel like the network equivalent of running everything as root. Just a nugget of info for anyone struggling with this issue st…

it should/will work on first deploy, it is when you restart the container or vm that it will suddenly get a new MAC and IPv6

[SOLUTION] Docker IPV6 and Docker compose woes

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sickprodigy (SickProdigy) February 22, 2023, 5:25am 7

why not macvlan with it’s own ipv6 address. I’m trying to accomplish this for an adguard situation and can’t quite get it.

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