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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>For setting a static IP, the “Stratum-1-Microserver HOWTO” punts to the reference “[EAT-STATIC] Tutorial - How to give your Raspberry Pi a Static IP Address” (http://www.modmypi.com/blog/tutorial-how-to-give-your-raspberry-pi-a-static-ip-address). This page describes modifying the file “/etc/network/interfaces”.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>this file contains, for the stock, current Raspberry PI OS (uname -a: “Linux raspberrypi 5.4.51-v7l+ #1333 SMP Mon Aug 10 16:51:40 BST 2020 armv7l GNU/Linux”):<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Inconsolata'>$ cat /etc/network/interfaces<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Inconsolata'># interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Inconsolata'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Inconsolata'># Please note that this file is written to be used with dhcpcd<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Inconsolata'># For static IP, consult /etc/dhcpcd.conf and 'man dhcpcd.conf'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Inconsolata'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Inconsolata'># Include files from /etc/network/interfaces.d:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Inconsolata'>source-directory /etc/network/interfaces.d<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Inconsolata'>$<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It is clearly involved with ‘dhcpdc’, but how? The implication (unstated) is that If the static IP data is manually put in this file and ‘dhcpdc’ disabled, ‘ifup’ and ‘ifdown’ will use this file and function properly. Am I understanding correctly?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>-wis<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>