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Handling static ip address configuration using /etc/network/interface

Amit Uttamchandani

Tue Nov 04 00:38:28 2014
Hi,

Our system uses Ubuntu 12.04LTS which comes with dhcpcd 6.0.5. When a
user configures a static IP using our software, we regenerate
/etc/network/interfaces. It looks like the following:

auto  lo
iface lo inet loopback

allow-hotplug  eth0
iface eth0 inet static
  address   192.168.1.253
  netmask   255.255.255.0
  gateway   192.168.1.1

On reboot, dhcpcd acquires an IP address from the DHCP server. Thus, the
unit ends up with two IP addresses.

Should dhcpcd respect the configuration in /etc/network/interfaces? Has
this been fixed in the newer releases?

What is the recommended way to ignore this interface when it is
configured statically?

Thanks,
Amit
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