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I'm having trouble setting up static routing. My target machine 192.168.1.36 has a loopback address of 192.168.46.1 255.255.255.255 which I am trying to ping from another device in the network 192.168.1.28.

On 192.168.1.36 I can ping the loopback and the source machine.

From the source machine 192.168.1.28 I have added the following static route:

route add -net 192.168.46.1 netmask 255.255.255.255 gw 192.168.1.36 dev ens3

However I cannot ping 192.168.46.1 despite being able to ping 192.168.1.36.

There are no firewall rules in place blocking ICMP.

Any help appreciated.

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In Linux a loopback adapter is valid only inside of its owner. You can't ping or communicate it from remote devices (You can remote access to loopback on Cisco devices)

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