Re: Setting static IP and gateway

[Colin Henry <colin henry gmail com>]

> On 16 Feb 2015, at 14:41, Thomas Haller <thaller redhat com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2015-02-16 at 11:34 +0100, Colin Henry wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Having loads of problems when trying to set a new system that was set up to use DHCP to now use a static 
> > ip and gateway. I’ve done lots of searches and the vast majority of it appears to be around setting up a 
> > new connection or completely disabling NetworkManager.
>
> > I try and set the gateway several ways:
> >
> > [root server ~]# nmcli con mod eno16777736 ipv4.method manual ipv4.addresses 192.168.115.133/24, 
> > 192.168.115.2
> > Error: value for '192.168.115.2' is missing.
> > [root server ~]# nmcli con mod eno16777736 ipv4.method manual ipv4.addresses 192.168.115.133/24, gw 
> > 192.168.115.2
> > Error: invalid <setting>.<property> 'gw'.
> > [root server ~]# nmcli con mod eno16777736 ipv4.method manual ipv4.addresses 192.168.115.133/24, ipv4.gw 
> > 192.168.115.2
> > Error: invalid property 'gw': 'gw' not among [method, dns, dns-search, addresses, address-labels, routes, 
> > ignore-auto-routes, ignore-auto-dns, dhcp-client-id, dhcp-send-hostname, dhcp-hostname, never-default, 
> > may-fail].
> > [root server ~]# 
>
>
> $ nmcli connection modify eno16777736 ipv4.method manual ipv4.addresses "192.168.115.133/24 192.168.115.2"
> $ nmcli connection modify eno16777736 ipv4.method manual ipv4.addresses 192.168.115.133/24\ 192.168.115.2
>
> (both lines are equal, in Shell you have to quote or escape the whitespace)
>
>
>
> On NetworkManager 1.0 the above would be deprecated syntax. Here you
> would do instead:
> $ nmcli connection modify eno16777736 ipv4.method manual ipv4.addresses 192.168.115.133/24 ipv4.gateway 
> 192.168.115.2
>
>
>
> Thomas

Thomas,

Works perfectly, many thanks for the quick reply.

Colin