Accessing docker container on subnet

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On my home network (normal internal IP range 192.168.0.0.0), in preparation for working with a VPC network which dictates my containers should run on a 10.0.0.0/16 subnet, I am trying to set up a docker container running mysql server which is accessible to other machines in a network.

I am trying to make the following setup:

  1. Create a bridged Docker 10.0.0.0/16 subnet

  2. Run a docker container with mysql server on one laptop, assigned to an IP address within the 10.0.0.0/16 range

  3. Make sure that port 3306 on the docker container is open by changing bind-address = 0.0.0.0 for the container instance of mysql-server

  4. On the host laptop, use a mysql client to test that the server can be accessed via the assigned IP 10.0.0.2:3306 (SUCCESS)

  5. On another laptop in the same network try to ping the 10.0.0.2 IP address (FAIL) and use a mysql client to access via the assigned IP 10.0.0.2:3306 (FAILURE)

The commands I have run for this are:

docker network create --driver bridge --subnet 10.0.0.0/16 --gateway 10.0.0.1 my-network

docker run --network=my-network -p 3306:3306 -d --cap-add=NET_ADMIN --cap-add=SYS_MODULE --env-file credentials/my-vpn-credentials.env my-docker-image:latest

Then docker exec -it magical_meninsky bash to setup the mysql server in the running container.

The output of `ifconfig’ on the host laptop is:

br-eb22a51280b1: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 10.0.0.1  netmask 255.255.0.0  broadcast 10.0.255.255
        ether 02:42:f8:4b:d4:ef  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

docker0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 172.17.0.1  netmask 255.255.0.0  broadcast 172.17.255.255
        ether 02:42:fe:5b:f4:62  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

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 1000  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 7812  bytes 835168 (835.1 KB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 7812  bytes 835168 (835.1 KB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

wlp2s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.0.73  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.0.255
        inet6 2a02:c7f:7e19:3e00:4511:82f3:6f62:8414  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x0<global>
        inet6 fd35:45d2:cc02:0:c13:6d1c:7583:d2f0  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x0<global>
        inet6 2a02:c7f:7e19:3e00:c13:6d1c:7583:d2f0  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x0<global>
        inet6 fd35:45d2:cc02:0:a0ed:62b1:bd7a:ea55  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x0<global>
        inet6 fe80::c821:db0f:889b:23f7  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 9c:b6:d0:88:fc:75  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 761839  bytes 509857747 (509.8 MB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 446722  bytes 256891288 (256.8 MB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

Can anybody suggest why I am unable to access the container from the other laptop on the home network?