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-# TrueNasTorrentingStack
-Use macvlans to bind docker containers to a single address
+# TrueNASTorrentingStack
+Use `macvlan`s to bind docker containers to a single address.
+
+When torrenting we typically want to hide our real IP address so our ISP doesn't get mad at us.
+I have a VLAN, set up in pfsense, that routes through wireguard to an AirVPN VPN, thus hiding my
+real ip address to anything connected to this network. This VLAN is set up as `br23` on my TrueNAS.
+It uses the IP range `192.168.23.1/24`. 
+
+Back in the TrueNAS Core days, we could easily route FreeBSD Jails through a single interface, in the web UI.
+We could even use DHCP. TrueNAS Scale does away with Jails and uses docker instead.
+In docker we can do something similar with `macvlan`s to allow our containers to get a new IP address routing
+through a given network. Unfortunately we can't get DHCP addresses from our router, everything has to be set 
+to static. 
+
+Sadly, as of TrueNAS Scale Electric Eel, and apparently Fangtooth too, this is not possible in the web UI.
+[Which has annoyed a lot of people.](https://forums.truenas.com/t/allow-apps-to-have-their-own-ip/12042)
+This is how I have achieved it, using docker-compose.
+