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Commands

Listing the Gateway and routing information

All Distributions:

route -nee

with the iproute2 package installed:

ip route show

Static IP

cp /etc/network/interfaces /etc/network/interfaces.bak
nano /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

#My IP description
# IPv4 address
iface eth0 inet static
	address	192.168.0.100
	netmask	255.255.255.0	
	network	192.168.0.0	
	broadcast 192.168.0.255
	gateway	192.168.0.1
 
nano /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver	8.8.8.8 
nameserver	8.8.4.4