How to create a virtual IP address in Fedora

Sometimes you will face a situation like creating virtual IP addresses in your machine for testing purposes.

This simple blog post is on how to do it.

Step 1 :

Type ifconfig in console to list down the current  network configurations. It will display as below.

enp0s25: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        ether 54:ee:75:83:7e:a6  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
        device interrupt 20  memory 0xf1200000-f1220000

enp0s25:1: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 10.100.0.24  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 10.100.0.255
        ether 54:ee:75:83:7e:a6  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        device interrupt 20  memory 0xf1200000-f1220000

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10<host>
        loop  txqueuelen 0  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 1295  bytes 168545 (164.5 KiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 1295  bytes 168545 (164.5 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

virbr0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.124.1  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.124.255
        ether 52:54:00:a3:65:c6  txqueuelen 0  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

wlp4s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 10.100.0.24  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 10.100.0.255
        inet6 fe80::1a5e:fff:fed4:229a  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 18:5e:0f:d4:22:9a  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 307132  bytes 230860558 (220.1 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 187836  bytes 37165700 (35.4 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

wlp4s0:0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.1.2  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 0.0.0.0
        ether 18:5e:0f:d4:22:9a  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)

Step 2 : 

Add your address in to your network interface using below command.

192.168.1.3 is my new IP and wlp4s0 is my network interface.

ip addr add 192.168.1.3/24 dev wlp4s0 label wlp4s0:1

Step 3 : 

Use ip addr show command to display the current addresses.

ip addr show

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default 

    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00

    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo

       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

    inet6 ::1/128 scope host 

       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

2: enp0s25: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state DOWN group default qlen 1000

    link/ether 54:ee:75:83:7e:a6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

    inet 10.100.0.24/24 brd 10.100.0.255 scope global enp0s25:1

       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

3: wlp4s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000

    link/ether 18:5e:0f:d4:22:9a brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

    inet 10.100.0.24/24 brd 10.100.0.255 scope global dynamic wlp4s0

       valid_lft 2897sec preferred_lft 2897sec

    inet 192.168.1.2/24 scope global wlp4s0:0

       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

    inet 192.168.1.3/24 scope global secondary wlp4s0:1

       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

    inet6 fe80::1a5e:fff:fed4:229a/64 scope link 

       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

4: virbr0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN group default 

    link/ether 52:54:00:a3:65:c6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

    inet 192.168.124.1/24 brd 192.168.124.255 scope global virbr0

       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

5: virbr0-nic: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel master virbr0 state DOWN group default qlen 500

    link/ether 52:54:00:a3:65:c6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

Step 4: 

If you want you can even add it in to your host entries. 

Add host entries to /etc/hosts

192.168.1.2 testhost1.com

Step 5 : 

Ping to your new IP address to make sure they respond

ping 192.168.1.3

PING 192.168.1.3 (192.168.1.3) 56(84) bytes of data.

64 bytes from 192.168.1.3: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.036 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.3: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.038 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.3: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.038 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.3: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.062 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.3: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.082 ms