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xabdax

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Registered: 2021-09-12

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[Solved] Assigning a static IP to an ethernet port

I was trying to follow this answer:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/295403

and while the command ifconfig was working in Ubuntu I found out that Arch is not using the package net-tools (which ifconfig is part of) anymore as explained in http://www.archlinux.org/news/deprecation-of-net-tools/.
In order to set the interface ip address of my ethernet port to a static ip address, I was therefore hoping to find something similar to

sudo ifconfig eth2 192.168.9.1

as given in that stackexchange answer. I found a bunch of manuals that require to edit files and disable certain daemons, but I was hoping to find something that is as elegant as the one line above, and only temporary so that if I rebooted my system everything would go back to normal.

Last edited by xabdax (2022-02-26 22:57:02)

Slithery

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Re: [Solved] Assigning a static IP to an ethernet port

https://dougvitale.wordpress.com/2011/1 … lacements/

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