Ubuntu 8.04 server is not retaining a static IP address
- by James Pierce
I recently setup a linux box running Ubuntu 8.04 (to match another server with 8.04). I need to insure that this box has a static IP address and I changed /etc/network/interfaces to set up the static IP address and when I run sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart it works fine for a while, but always reverts back to 10.0.1.24 after being idle for a while.
I also tried stopping/removing the dhcp client, but that didn't help.
sudo /etc/init.d/dhcp stop
sudo apt-get remove dhcp3-client
Here is my /etc/init.d/networking:
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 10.0.1.4
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 10.0.1.255
gateway 10.0.1.1
Any thoughts? Thanks.
