Setting Up a Static IP Address

  1. Find the logical name of the network device:

    $ sudo lshw -class network -short
H/W path         Device           Class       Description
=========================================================
/0/100/4/0       enp1s0           network     RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller

  2. Edit /etc/network/interfaces to contain the following (where the IP address of the router begins with 192.168.0.*):

    auto enp1s0
iface enp1s0 inet static
    address 192.168.0.69
    netmask 255.255.255.0
    network 192.168.0.0
    broadcast 192.168.0.255
    gateway 192.168.0.1
    dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4
Field Notes
address The static IP address to be set, here set to *.69
netmask 0 bits indicate bits that can be used for the IP address; here, only the lower 256 bits can be used
network First address in network, here set to *.0
broadcast Last address in network, here set to *.255
gateway IP address of the router
dns-nameservers NS servers; 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are Google’s DNS servers
  1. Run sudo ifdown -v enp1s0 && sudo ifup -v enp1s0