etherpuppet software package provides create a virtual interface from a remote Ethernet interface, you can install in your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install etherpuppet
etherpuppet is installed in your system.
Make ensure the etherpuppet package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep etherpuppet *
You will get with etherpuppet package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 12 04 lts precise pangolin |
| Section | Network |
| Package | etherpuppet |
| Version | 0.3-1 |
| Description | create a virtual interface from a remote Ethernet interface |
| Sub Section | Net |