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Re: Jessie & Fixed IP Address

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On Thu, 2016-09-08 at 12:42 -0500, Tim McDonough wrote:
> On 9/8/2016 12:08 PM, David wrote:
> > 
> > I am working with a Raspberry PI running Jessie and I'm not happy
> > about
> > the solutions I found to change it from DHCP to a fixed IP address.
> > 
> > Editing the file /etc/dhcpcd.conf does not seem to work correctly.
> > 
> > Can I go back to the old method of editing /etc/network/interfaces
> > 
> > Or is there a better way of setting a fixed IP on Jessie?
> 
> Raspbian Jessie (not Debian Jessie) uses systemd by default. I found
> the 
> following instructions worked well on my R-Pi 3 board:
> 
> <http://www.circuitbasics.com/how-to-set-up-a-static-ip-on-the-raspbe
> rry-pi/>
> 
> I too found it really confusing that many of the files we formerly
> used 
> to configure networking are still present but have no effect. I do
> not 
> know what all is involved in re-configuring to not use this newer
> method.
> 
> Tim
> 
Thank you for the replies.

Firstly an apology, I did not realise there was a Debian Jessie and a
Raspbian Jessie.

I'm working with Raspbian Jessie.

Having seen Tim's email I did some further searching and found some
suggestions which are to remove the daemon dhcpcd and edit the
/etc/network/interfaces file.

David.

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Jessie & Fixed IP Address David <david.g_jones@ntlworld.com> - 2016-09-08 19:20 +0200
  Re: Jessie & Fixed IP Address Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-09-08 19:40 +0200
    Re: Jessie & Fixed IP Address Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2016-09-09 11:30 +0200
      Re: Jessie & Fixed IP Address Tim McDonough <tmcdonough@gmail.com> - 2016-09-09 21:20 +0200
        Re: Jessie & Fixed IP Address <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-09-09 22:50 +0200
  Re: Jessie & Fixed IP Address Tim McDonough <tmcdonough@gmail.com> - 2016-09-08 19:50 +0200
    Re: Jessie & Fixed IP Address David <david.g_jones@ntlworld.com> - 2016-09-09 10:20 +0200
      Re: Jessie & Fixed IP Address Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-09-09 10:50 +0200
        Re: Jessie & Fixed IP Address_Solved David <david.g_jones@ntlworld.com> - 2016-09-11 15:50 +0200
  Re: Jessie & Fixed IP Address Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-08 21:20 +0200

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