Static IP addresses fail!

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 22:23 -0700, don fisher wrote:
> I am currently running Ubuntu 10.10 with no end of problems. How does 
> one assign a static IP address. I have tried the standard network 
> manager and WICD, all with no success. This used to be easy 10 years 
> ago! In Redhat-9 you just edited the interface description files and it 
> was done. Now they have made it so easy I can find no options!
> 
> Any help would be appreciated. Sorry for the attitude, but it has been a 
> long day trying to accomplish a trivial operation.
> 
> Don

It's still extremely easy to do.
Edit the /etc/network/interfaces file.

http://www.liberiangeek.net/2010/09/setup-permanent-static-ip-address-ubuntu-10-0410-10-maverick-meerkat/


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