Re: static ip address is being reset constantly

["Jesús M. Navarro" <jesus.navarro@undominio.net>]

Hi, John:

On Friday 04 September 2009 14:21:25 John O Laoi wrote:
> > Verify that no dhcp process is running in the background. If there is 
> > none remove the network manager.
>
> Thanks Frank.
> Indeed there was DHCP processes running:
>
> # ps aux | grep dhc
> root      3650  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    08:31   0:00
> [dhclient] <defunct>
> root      4044  0.0  0.0   2204   608 ?        S<s  08:32   0:00
> dhclient3 -pf /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid -lf
> /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.eth0.leases eth0
> root     11612  0.0  0.0   2204   572 ?        Ss   11:39   0:00 dhclient
> eth0 root     12702  0.0  0.0   3192   752 pts/0    R+   12:16   0:00 grep
> dhc
>
> When I killed all of the above processes, the problem was solved.

And it will probably return as soon as you reboot your computer.

Why you just don't edit /etc/network/interfaces and set your given IP there?  
That will deal with the problem once and forever.