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Setting a static IP on the Nodal Agent

Introduction

A newly deployed Nodal VPN agent will default to using DHCP to attempt to automatically request an IP address on your network.

If you need to set a static IP address instead, this article will explain how.

Setting a static IP

Log in to your Nodal Agent terminal using nodal-agent as the username, plus the password you set on initial deployment.

Edit the interfaces file with the following command:

sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

Delete the last line of this file

iface eth0 inet dhcp

and replace it with

iface eth0 inet static
    address 192.168.0.2
    gateway 192.168.0.1
    netmask 255.255.255.0Code language: CSS (css)

Replacing the values of address, gateway and netmask as appropriate for your network. Save the file with CTRL-X, then Y, then Enter.

Restart the networking service with:

sudo systemctl restart networking

Your Nodal Agent should now be running on the new IP address