This post was originally released on 14th of January 2017.
DHCP is great but there usually comes a time when you need to make sure that your IP stays always the same. This post outlines the steps you can take to setup a static IP on Fedora, Centos and Oracle Linux.
Before you begin do these two steps in terminal:
yum -y install net-tools
ip a
After ip a, you will see something like this:
2: eno1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether dc:4a:3e:43:dc:1c brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 9.1.1.11/24 brd 9.1.1.255 scope global dynamic eno1
valid_lft 68056sec preferred_lft 68056sec
inet6 fe80::593e:cf18:df4e:f815/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
Take note of your network adapter name(eno1).
Get your current IP (inet line)
9.1.1.11
Broadcast address(brd)
9.1.1.255
Get your gateway details by typing route -n