I asked my organization to assign me a static IP address within their
network, and they obliged. The problem is that every time I boot now, I
still get the old address in DHCP space that I had before. To make the
change, I provided network operations with my MAC address, which I got from
the output of ifconfig -a:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr aa:00:04:00:0a:04
All I did at my end to set this up was to change /etc/network/interfaces to
the following:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0