TLDR; I cannot ping my docker containers from my other network clients. Only when a container actively pings the gateway I am able to reach the containers afterwards.
On my homenetwork (192.168.0.0/24) I run a gateway 192.168.0.1 which hosts a DNS server and also routes the internet traffic. My docker host (192.168.0.100) has a macvlan network, created with
docker network create -d macvlan --subnet=192.168.0.0/24 --gateway=192.168.0.100 -o parent=eth0 dockernet
My containers now do get static IPs, like 192.168.0.200. The containers can actively ping other physical hosts on the network, so that works fine.
But if I spin up a new container, it cannot be pinged from my physical network. Not from the docker host (which is expected as this seems to be a limitation of the macvlan network), nor from the gateway or any other client. Once the container actively pings the gateway, it gets also reachable for other clients.
So I guess some routing needs to be done and there I need your help.
Clients run on debian buster and I use an unmanaged switch to connect the clients.