Plex on Docker with IPvlan

I ran into a class of container networking problem where the usual answers were all slightly wrong. I had Plex in a container. Plex inspects the interfaces it can see and publishes those addresses to clients. On a normal bridge network, that meant Plex happily discovered its container-side 10.x address and advertised it, even though nothing on my LAN could reach it directly. Clients would try that dead address first, wait, and then eventually fall back to the real one. ...

March 27, 2026 · 7 min · Michael Bisbjerg