How to Set Static IP Address on Linux

Different from desktop machines where you can use dynamic IP addresses, static IP address are often required on a server infrastructure.

RHEL / CentOS / Fedora:

You will need to edit:

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

Where ifcfg-eth0 relates to your network interface eth0. If your interface name is enp1s0 then the file that you will need to edit is ifcfg-enp1s0.

Add the following fields:

DEVICE="eth0"
BOOTPROTO="static"
IPADDR="192.168.1.1"
NETMASK="255.255.255.0"
TYPE="Ethernet"

Debian / Ubuntu:

To setup static IP address in Debian/ Ubuntu, edit the following file:

/etc/network/interfaces

You may see a line looking like this:

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

Change it so it looks like this:

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
  address 192.168.1.1
  netmask 255.255.255.0

Restart the networking on your system:

SysVinit : /etc/init.d/network restart

SystemD : systemctl restart network

If unsure of what which system manager your distro uses, try this:

pidof systemd && echo "systemd" || echo "sysvinit"

Conclusion

You now know how to configure a static IP address on a Linux distro.