Ubuntu Server Setup

Ubuntu Server 14.04 Setup Part 3 – Set Static IP

all right so up to this point we've installed Ubuntu server and we've changed the hostname to test server and the next step is pretty important by

default our server was given an IP address from the DHCP gateway which is my neck' router alright so what we want to do is set it as a static IP address so that it doesn't change and we're also

going to set a couple of other things so in Linux if you want to see our IP information you can use the command IIF you just click in here ifconfig and if you're familiar with Windows it's IP

config pretty much does the same kind of thing all right so let's take a look at this you can see that our IP address our internal IP address is 10.00 all right my network I'm on my home

network which is a 10.00 network all right so my router or my gateway is 10.0.0.0 and virtual machines on my network alright so I'm going to actually use this IP address I'm just going to

make sure that I set it as a static IP address ok so what we want to do is edit a file so we're going to say sudo nano et Cie slash network slash interfaces alright so there's a few things that we

want to do here if we go down here we want to leave these lines we just want to change this one here this um I met DHCP alright like I said by default we're using the DHCP server and we don't

want to do that we want to set this as static all right and then there's a few lines we want to add under here okay so the first one will be the actual IP address okay which I'm going to keep as

the one that the DHCP server assigned which is 10 0 0 1 3 and then add a few other things here too I'm going to add in my net mask which is going to be 2 5 5 to 5 5 to 5 5.0

ok next I want to define the network now if you have a local network it you could very well be using the 161 98.1 6 2.0 or whatever my network is on the 10.0.0.0 alright broadcast I don't think that

this is required but I like to put it anyways which is going to be 1000 – 5 5 all right now the Gateway you do have to have that which is going to be in my case my my Netgear router which is on

1000won and then finally we're going to put in our dns nameservers and I usually just use the public Google's public name servers which is 8.8.8.8 and then I'm going to

put a space and put 8.8.4.4 okay so those are Google's public name servers so that's pretty much all we need to do here so I'm going to do a control X and make sure I click Y to save and that's

it all right now that we have a static IP address I want to remove the DHCP client because I don't want I don't want to have any more IP addresses handed to the server so I'm going to say sudo

apt-get remove DHCP 3 – client all right so now that we have that out of the way we can now we've start the network all right so that's how you can make your IP address static and also add your

dns name servers for your server

Simple steps to create a static IP address for your Linux Ubuntu server