How to Set IP addresses on Ubuntu Linux

[Leon van Heerden]

The networking settings are located in this file

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/etc/network/interface

This is what a default file usually looks like:

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# The primary network interface using DHCP to acquire an IP
auto eth0
       iface eth0 inet dhcp


This is what your file should look like to set a static IP

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#The IP is statically set to 192.168.0.10
auto eth0
        iface eth0 inet static
        address 192.168.0.10
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        network 192.168.0.0
        broadcast 192.168.0.255
        gateway 192.168.0.1