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I've found pipework (https://github.com/jpetazzo/pipework) still to be the easiest way to manage networking in containers when you know what you want. Start up your container with --net=none and then something like:

  pipework mybr01 mycontainername 1.1.1.3/24@1.1.1.1

Docker 1.9's enhanced networking functionality is supposed to make this easier, although I've had a hard time understanding how to use it on my preferred RHEL/CentOS platform (the doco I've read either glosses over details or assumes you use docker-machine & swarm, neither of which I want to use in a simple deployment).

Weave is supposed to make this easy to (and offers some simplicity over docker 1.9's requirement for a clustered key-value store), but I got frustrated at their implicit iptables nat rule for networks created by default and haven't worked out how to stop that.