Changing Ubuntu Server from DHCP to Static IP Address (Ubuntu Server 16.04 TLS)
Recently, created a couple of LAMP stacks with Ubuntu 16.04 and needed to issue a Static IP so that it could be NAT’d as a web server.
I have used this command
Step 1.
sysadmin@ubuntu:~$ sudo nano /etc/network/interface auto ens160 iface ens160 inet dhcp
Step 2. Change dhcp to static and edit the IP Address/Subnetmask/Gateway (in bold)
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). source /etc/network/interfaces.d/* # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface auto ens160 iface ens160 inet static address 192.168.1.48 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.1 dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 4.4.4.4 (or Internal DNS Servers)
Step 3. Now restart the networking service
sysadmin@ubuntu:~$sudo service networking restart
This seems to do the trick for our Ubuntu Server 16.04 TLS. Try it out.
References
How-to-Geek (2016). Change Ubuntu Server from DHCP to a Static IP Address. Retrieved from: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/change-ubuntu-server-from-dhcp-to-a-static-ip-address/
Ubuntu Official Help Documentation (2016). Network Configuration. Retrieved from: https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/network-configuration.html
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