How to make virtual interface ping to a host in the network

Question

I crated a virtual interface as indicated in this link.

sudo modprobe dummy
sudo ip link set name eth10 dev dummy0
sudo ifconfig eth10 up
sudo ifconfig eth10 192.168.1.150

now if I want to make a ping to a host in my network (ping 192.168.1.133), then the ping will not work.

I tried to add

sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.eth10.forwarding=1

But the ping does not work neither.

What should I have to add to make the ping works?

Solution

Dummy interfaces won't do anything until you make them part of a bridge.

As this is an old question and the asker is not explaining what he actually wants to achieve, and it's impossible to guess this, the question is difficult to answer.

The most straightforward way is to create a bridge on an ethernet interface etc., but then you could have just added the address to the ethernet interface in the first place.

Comments

[Kenster]

You say ping doesn't work. What specifically happens when you run ping? What error messages do you get?