Set a static IP in Ubuntu from the shell

Date 7 ottobre 2010 Author By SFSoft Category HowTo, Linux

Edit

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and adjust it to your needs (in this example setup I will use the IP address 192.168.0.100):

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# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system

# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback

# This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces.

# They will be activated automatically by the hotplug subsystem. mapping hotplug script grep map eth0

# The primary network interface

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.100
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.0.0
broadcast 192.168.0.255
gateway 192.168.0.1
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