I've never in my life have had so much difficulty in setting up a static ip. I've researched pass questions on askubuntu.com and have looked up multiple references and documents on setting up a static ip. I've ping several ip addresses like my gateway and i'm receiving packets but i ping google.com and don't get any. I've even pinged myself "the static ip i gave myself" and it returns packets. So right now i'm completely lost.
Here is what is in my interfaces file:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 10.25.12.201
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 10.25.12.10
I issued the following commmands and their results are as follows
ifconfig
-->eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:81:19:b2:ee
inet addr:10.25.12.201 Bcast:10.25.12.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::224:81ff:fe19:b2ee/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1396 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:63 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:98518 (98.5 KB) TX bytes:8988 (8.9KB)
Interrupt:19 Memory:f0500000-f0520000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:236 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:236 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:17383 (17.3 KB) TX bytes:17383 (17.3 KB)
ping google.com
-->ping: unknown host google.com
ping 10.25.12.10
-->PING 10.25.12.10 (10.25.12.10) 56(84) bytes of data
-->64 bytes from 10.25.12.10: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.08 ms
-->64 bytes from 10.25.12.10: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.571 ms
-->10.25.12.10 ping statistics
-->2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1001ms
-->rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.571/0.830/1.089/0.259 ms
ping 10.25.12.201
-->PING 10.25.12.201 (10.25.12.201) 56(84) bytes of data
-->64 bytes from 10.25.12.201: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.021 ms
-->1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
-->rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.021/0.021/0.021/0.000 ms
Any idea on how I can fix this. I've also done a networking restart and have restarted the computer several times. I've also included "auto lo" and "iface lo inet loopback" at the top of the file interfaces but it still doesn't work. Seems like no matter what I do I can't ping google.com and establish any kind of internet connection.
8.8.8.8
(Google DNS server)? Can you ping your gateway (10.25.12.10
)?