Debian Static IP: How to set static ip in Debian
Debian how to set static ip
Written instructions here: http://soltveit.org/debian-static-ip/
This is a short video on how to set static ip on a fresh Debian linux machine.
If you need to change your IP from Dynamic (DHCP) to static, I have presented a method here for doing it. There are other alternatives as well. You can reserve the IP in the router to a specific mac address.
In Debian (and Ubuntu, just remember sudo) the network card is stored here:
/etc/network/interfaces
Its up to you if you want to back it up before you go on and edit it.
Anyway, launch vim or something else you fancy.
vim /etc/network/interfaces
And it will probably look something like this:
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
The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
auto eth0
That is how it looks when using a dhcp server instead of static ip. If we decide to use the ip 10.0.0.10 instead of a dynamic ip. And we want it to be able to talk to the internet, and the gateway is at 10.0.0.1. We replace the primary part with this:
The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 10.0.0.10
gateway 10.0.0.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 10.0.0.0 # Not required
broadcast 10.0.0.255 # Not required
Then we need to restart the network card interface to activate the static ip.
/etc/init.d/networking restart