The following steps describes how I have configured my static IP address on Ubuntu Server 14.04.
You need to edit the file “/etc/network/interfaces”:
sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces
Then change to include the following:
# The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface auto eth0 #iface lo inet interface iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.122 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.1 dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 ~
- eth0 is the regular ethernet interface
- address is the static IP address you choose
- gateway is usually the routers IP address
- dns-nameservers is the dns server IP address, this is needed for domain name resolution
After the change you can either reboot or run
sudo ifdown eth0 sudo ifup eth0
Check now:
mel@ubuntu:~$ ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:6a:56:94 inet addr:192.168.1.122 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fe6a:5694/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1181 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:173 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:96894 (96.8 KB) TX bytes:23376 (23.3 KB) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
