11.3. The macvlan plugin

Most of the container images do not have a DHCP client, the dhcp plugin acts as a proxy DHCP client for the containers to interact with a DHCP server.

The host system does not have network access to the container. To allow network connections from outside the host to the container, the container has to have an IP on the same network as the host. The macvlan plugin enables you to connect a container to the same network as the host.

You can create a macvlan network by using the podman network create --driver=macvlan command.