How to assign Static/Manul IP Address in Ubuntu/Linux Mint

IP Address Details

IP Address: 10.10.1.7

Subnet Mask: 255.255.192.0

Gateway IP: 10.10.1.1

DNS: 8.8.8.8

Interface Name: eth0

Edit file to configure Ip address and save.

shahzad@ThinkCentre-E73 ~ $ sudo vim.tiny /etc/network/interfaces

Current status

auto eth0

iface eth0 inet dhcp

Chnage with below syntax

auto eth0

iface eth0 inet static

address 10.10.1.7

netmask 255.255.192.0

gateway 10.10.1.1

dns-nameserver 8.8.8.8

Restart Network service

shahzad@ThinkCentre-E73 ~ $sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

Commnd to show IP Address

shahzad@ThinkCentre-E73 ~ $ ifconfig

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr d8:cb:8a:65:03:40

inet addr:10.10.1.7 Bcast:10.10.63.255 Mask:255.255.192.0

inet6 addr: fe80::dacb:8aff:fe65:340/64 Scope:Link

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:871485 errors:0 dropped:4 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:83840 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:219685693 (219.6 MB) TX bytes:16334462 (16.3 MB)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback

inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0

inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host

UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1

RX packets:4152 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:4152 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

RX bytes:565570 (565.5 KB) TX bytes:565570 (565.5 KB)

Test Networking

shahzad@ThinkCentre-E73 ~ $ ping google.com

PING google.com (173.194.36.70) 56(84) bytes of data.

64 bytes from del01s06-in-f6.1e100.net (173.194.36.70): icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 time=39.7 ms

64 bytes from del01s06-in-f6.1e100.net (173.194.36.70): icmp_seq=2 ttl=57 time=37.4 ms

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