My favourite way to achieve this is to assign a static DHCP lease on the modem (I.e. set it by the MAC address) that way it's also manageable for other kinds of devices, concentrated in one place and the dhcp server is aware of the address being in use. On Dec 10, 2011 12:22 PM, "elliott-brennan" <m...@elliott-brennan.id.au> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I know this comes under the 'Doh' list but... > > I have a fresh Ubuntu 10.04 install. On this particular machine I want a > static address - I'm going to try out OpenSim (long story for later). > > This machine runs off a hub which is in turn connected to my modem/router. > > I've edited the /etc/network/interfaces file as follows: > > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet static > address 192.168.0.12 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > gateway 192.168.0.1 > > > but no success. The machine is simply not happy (I've also lost the > network icon from the toolbar - another story) and doesn't want to connect > to the network. > > Should I just give up and assign an address to the machine's mac address > via the router or is there something simple (I'm guessing so) that I'm > missing. > > Thanks in advance. > > Regards, > > Patrick > > > > -- > www.patrickological.com > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: > http://slug.org.au/faq/**mailinglists.html<http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html> > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
