Re: setting up a static IP address
On Mon 15 Aug 2011 at 11:49:24 +0000, Steve Kleene wrote:
> 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
If this a dhcp reservation you could try:
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
and reboot.
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