--- title: "network disconnect" description: "The network disconnect command description and usage" keywords: "network, disconnect, user-defined" --- <!-- This file is maintained within the docker/docker Github repository at https://github.com/docker/docker/. Make all pull requests against that repo. If you see this file in another repository, consider it read-only there, as it will periodically be overwritten by the definitive file. Pull requests which include edits to this file in other repositories will be rejected. --> # network disconnect ```markdown Usage: docker network disconnect [OPTIONS] NETWORK CONTAINER Disconnect a container from a network Options: -f, --force Force the container to disconnect from a network --help Print usage ``` Disconnects a container from a network. The container must be running to disconnect it from the network. ```bash $ docker network disconnect multi-host-network container1 ``` ## Related information * [network inspect](network_inspect.md) * [network connect](network_connect.md) * [network create](network_create.md) * [network ls](network_ls.md) * [network rm](network_rm.md) * [network prune](network_prune.md) * [Understand Docker container networks](https://docs.docker.com/engine/userguide/networking/)