Windows transparent networks on Hyper-V VMs

[rimelek (Ákos Takács)]

I’m not a Windows user, so I don’t know how transparent network works on Windows, but if you haven’t read that yet, there is a documentation from Microsoft:

Advanced network options in Windows

and we had another topic about it

Issue with Transparent Network in Docker on a Windows VM Hosted on VMware

How are you assigning IPs to the containers? If you aren’t and instead you are using whatever is the default, then I can tell you that you’re using NAT. Please note as in the blog post, NAT means you have an internal network on which the containers and the host have IPs from. You then map a port from the host to the container when you run docker run. Something like: docker run -d -p 8080:80 containerimage:tag If you wan to ping from the container to the host, you can ping using the IP of the…