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Setting a Static IP

In this learning activity, you will take the DHCP assigned IP address and assign it as a static IP. This is an unforgiving exercise. If you misconfigure the IP address settings, you will need to restart the lab.

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Clock icon Intermediate
Duration
Clock icon 1h 0m
Published
Clock icon Nov 14, 2018

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  1. Challenge

    Configure Static IPs 

    nmcli con

    In your career you will need to work with a variety of hardware and device names. In this lab, for this generation of hardware, the network interface DEVICE will normally be eth0. If you observe a different interface DEVICE id for the primary interface adjust the scripts to make use of that DEVICE id.

    nmcli con mod System\ eth0 ipv4.method manual ipv4.addresses 10.0.1.10/24 ipv4.gateway 10.0.1.1 ipv4.dns 10.0.0.2 ipv4.dns-search ec2.internal

  2. Challenge

    Verify That the Address Is Now Set Manually, Not Dynamically 

    nmcli con show System\ eth0 | grep ipv4

  3. Challenge

    Restart Networking 

    systemctl restart network
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