Thanks Slimdevices team for the great product!

I need to assign static IP address to Squeezebox Controller. Reasons:
1. I'm not running DHCP server in my network
2. SBC will wake up from sleep faster since it doesn't have to obtain
DHCP address. In fact 6 seconds faster in my setup.
3. it may help to eliminate SBC GUI freeze of wheel unresponsiveness
when navigating through menus and suddenly it is time to renew DHCP
lease.
4. it is easier to track devices with static IPs
5. I just want to know if it is possible to do this

I enabled SSH on SBC, SSHed in and looked around. It looks like I just
need to modify two files. In  /etc/network/interfaces I need to
replace

iface myssid inet dhcp
script /etc/network/udhcpc_action

with

iface myssid inet static
address <static IP address>
network <network address>
netmask <network mask>
gateway <default gateway IP address>
script /etc/network/udhcpc_action

And I need to put DNS server IP address into /etc/resolv.conf

Is this right approach to achieve what I need?
How to stop DHCP client since we don't need it anymore?
Will these setting be preserved through SBC firmware upgrade?
If everything goes sour would SBC factory reset restore these files?

I would appreciate Slimdevices folks response or anyone who is familiar
with Busybox setup.
I saw lots of posts here asking about how to assign static IP to SBC
but no real solution yet.
Thank you for SSH access!


Anry


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