On Tuesday, 19 June 2018 14:22:39 BST Ralph Corderoy wrote: > A laptop running Linux would do as well.
I don't have laptops that run anything else :-) > ...that you understood. :-) No. I did what most other Raspberry Pi users do; I followed the Tutorial and assumed that the author knew what he was doing. The fact is that he probably did, but since he was doing this five years ago and / or didn't have exactly the same hardware as me, there is no guarantee that the Tutorial is still correct. If I fully understood this stuff, I'd have 'rolled my own'. :-) > > One final question. If I open a default copy of > > /etc/network/interface, it says that the file is intended to be used > > with dhcpcd.conf. Do I still need to define the static IP address of > > eth0 in both places or just here? > > Well, in your new `start from scratch' there won't be a DHCP server to > read dhcpcd.conf. :-) You should be telling the server to just listen > on eth0 rather than its default of all interfaces that are up and can > broadcast. I don't see any reason why it would need to be told eth0's > static address is 192.168.0.9 as it won't be handling a DHCPDISCOVER > request for that interface as it's statically defined in > /etc/network/interfaces. Are you sure about that? The file dhcpcd.conf is installed by default and all the latest instructions (eg https://www.raspberrypi.org/learning/networking-lessons/rpi-static-ip-address/) tell the users to define a static IP Address there. The interfaces file is not mentioned anywhere. Clearly, there won't be a functioning DHCP Server unless I define a range, but the infrastructure is clearly in place and the file must be read by the Pi, otherwise the device wouldn't get its IP Address. My question was really should I define the Static IP Address in dhcpcd.conf (as instructed), in /etc/Network/interfaces, or both? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-07-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:[email protected] / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
