Static IP using Ubuntu 8.04

[Raseel Bhagat]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Fermi Level <fermilevel at gmail.com> wrote:

> here is how i did it in jaunty
>
> http://unixlab.blogspot.com/2009/06/setting-up-static-ip-in-ubuntu-904.html
> Fermi
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Rein <reica at bigpond.com> wrote:
>
>> Nils Kassube <kassube <at> gmx.net> writes:
>> > Either enter the wireless configuration in /etc/network/interfaces (let
>> > me know if you _really_ want to do that) or install wicd (see
>> > <http://wicd.sourceforge.net/download.php> for instructions).
>> >
>> > Nils
>>
>> Thank you.. wicd downloaded and installed. Everything works fine with
>> Static IP address. Thanks again!
>> Rein
>>
>>
All the above are good ways.
But didn't a simple killing of the dhclient and re-assigning an IP work ?
For example,
$sudo dhclient wlan0 -r
$sudo ifconfig wlan0 192.168.1.10

Thanks,
Raseel
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