Hello,
now as stated, I am planning on moving my OpenHab installation from a RPi4 to a Docker on the mentioned Rackstation. However, I am still a little unsure about the networking of the installation. Is there a way of just giving one of the LAN ports to the Openhab Docker? This sounds like the easiest solution to me, but I found a lot about virtual LAN and second IP addresses, but nothing about just giving one physical LAN port to a docker (the RS822+ has 4 ports, so I have a couple on hand…)
What do you mean by LAN port? If you have 4 physical RJ45 connectors to you Rackstations, that basically means that you have 4 different network cards.
They can be connected to switch and get IP-nummer in the same subnet, or they could be in totally isolated networks.
The way docker works (default) is that it runs on host. It has its own internal network and ip. The host then maps local ports that goes to docker.
You can give the docker container a dedicated ip number in the same subnet as the host. Then the host where you run docker will still have its own ip which not the same as the docker container.
The other option is to use port forward, I.e.Docker on same ip as host but running on a.specific port. This is what’s used default on docker.
Third option, yes you can run docker on separate network, you then have to make sure your clients have access to that network and you have to route in between networks.
So do this simply create a new docker network with the desired network ip, host etc
