Network Configuration

It is recommended that your network settings be configured by MAC address on your DHCP server, but if you would prefer to configure the operating system with a static IP, you can do so as follows.

[pi@raspberrypi ~]$ sudo su [root@raspberrypi ~]$ mv /etc/network/interfaces /etc/network/interfaces.orig [root@raspberrypi ~]$ vi /etc/network/interfaces NOTE If you aren't familiar with vi, you just press the "i" button to go into --INSERT-- mode, then paste or type in the following. Obviously, the following values are specific to you (address/netmask/gateway/broadcast), however this will work provided you don't have another device with the IP of 192.168.1.200. When done, hit the following keys - Esc : wq! Enter to save the file.

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.200 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.1 broadcast 192.168.1.255

Once complete, you can verify the file by using the following command.

[root@raspberrypi ~]$ cat /etc/network/interfaces

Now restart the network service.

[root@raspberrypi ~]$ /etc/init.d/networking restart

Verify the IP address is properly set.

[root@raspberrypi ~]$ ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:8B:4B:9A:20 inet addr:192.168.1.200 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::218:8bff:fe4b:9a20/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:378698 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:16660 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:18593424 (17.7 MiB) TX bytes:14654645 (13.9 MiB) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:624 (624.0 b) TX bytes:624 (624.0 b)

You should now be able to console into your RPi via SSH from another device on the network.