IP Config Static IP Setup

[Jswee1]

Ive recently setup a static ip addresses on all of my devices but im having some problems with the pi cause i want to shut off dhcp on my router i have gone to

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cat /etc/network/interfaces

and

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ifconfig

and continued it works fine when dhcp is on on my router but when i shut it off it doesnt work and all of my other devices connect fine

[procount]

Are you running Wheezy or Jessie on the RPi?
How have you set up your static IP address? Please post what you added to the config files (e.g interfaces or dhcpcd.conf) to set this up (excluding any sensitive info like usernames/passwords/ssids!)

[Jswee1]

Wheezy heres the output of ifconfig

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eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr b8:27:eb:cc:6a:47
          inet addr:192.168.0.2  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:499 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:247 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:32876 (32.1 KiB)  TX bytes:36064 (35.2 KiB)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:580 (580.0 B)  TX bytes:580 (580.0 B)

and output of route -n

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Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
0.0.0.0         192.168.0.1     0.0.0.0         UG    202    0        0 eth0
192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     202    0        0 eth0

and current network settings

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auto lo eth0 wlan0 wlan1
iface lo inet loopback

allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.2
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.0.0
broadcast 192.168.0.255
gateway 192.168.0.1


iface wlan0 inet manual

iface wlan1 inet manual

It works when dhcp on my router is on but when its off it wont

[procount]

Can you ping your router?

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ping 192.168.0.1

If you ping an external URL, does it get converted to an IP address?

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 $ ping www.google.com
PING www.google.com (216.58.208.196) 56(84) bytes of data.

Have you setup a DNS server address?
If not edit /etc/resolv.conf and add a "server" entry to the file:-

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server 8.8.8.8

(or replace 8.8.8.8 with your usual DNS address)
Then reboot or restart networking.

[NormanDunbar]

Editing resolv.conf is ok, as long as the "resolveconf" package is not installed. As that will overwrite your carefully edited /etc/resolv.conf file.

To find out, this might help:

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dpkg -l | grep resolvconf

If that utility is present, you need to add the dns details to /etc/interfaces as follows:

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dns-nameservers   8.8.8.8
dns-nameservers   8.8.4.4

If, and when, you upgrade to Jessie, networking will change. I've put up a blog post at http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/blog/201 ... ifi-setup/ which outlines the various steps you might need to follow to get networking running under Jessie. It might be useful.


HTH

Cheers,
Norm.

[procount]

@norman - thanks for expanding on my dns attempts. Your Jessie networking post looks very useful (and I liked reading about your HP ink exploits!)

[Jswee1]

Well it doesnt seem to be working at all i have webmin installed does that effect it or samba

[NormanDunbar]

... you need to add the dns details to /etc/interfaces as follows:

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dns-nameservers   8.8.8.8
dns-nameservers   8.8.4.4

When I said that I should have said that it should go beneath the "iface..." line in your interfaces file.

Also, it should possibly be indented by one TAB character, according to the Pi User Manual.

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allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet static
    address 192.168.0.2
    netmask 255.255.255.0
    network 192.168.0.0
    broadcast 192.168.0.255
    gateway 192.168.0.1
    dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8
    dns-nameservers 8.8.4.4

That's how I used to do it on Wheezy in the past, and it worked for me.

And finally, I'm pretty sure you only need address, netmask and gateway.


Your resolve.conf file should end up looking like this:

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nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4

Either by manual editing (the dpkg -l command above doesn't show that resolvconf is installed) or by the resolvconf utility "editing" it for you.

HTH


Cheers,
Norm.