For anyone experiencing this issue, a work around is to perform kill -1 on dhclient (prevents a new ip from being obtained). I performed a system restart after doing this and dhclient did not start again, and the correct static IP was set.
-- dhclient3 keeps running after ifdown https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/38140 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs