Ubuntu 12.04 Server static ip configuration
I had some trouble getting the static ip configuration right for Ubuntu 12.04 Server. Every time I would restart the server the nameserver settings in /etc/resolv.conf would get overwritten by dhcp client. Many tutorials suggest doing an apt-get remove for dhcp-client but this didn’t work for me either.
I found this page that documents how to do this in 12.04.
Answer:
You basically need to add your nameserver settings in the /etc/network/interfaces file like so:
iface eth0 inet static
address xx.xx.xx.xx
netmask xx.xx.xx.xx
network xx.xx.xx.xx
broadcast xx.xx.xx.xx
gateway xx.xx.xx.xx
dns-nameservers xx.xx.xx.xx xx.xx.xx.xx
Note that dns-nameservers is where you add your DNS nameservers (they didn’t get creative with the name, heh!)
Unless they changed a lot in the latest version of Ubuntu static IPs should work just fine with the dhcp-client. Also I’d leave it on the machine in case you have to get a new dynamic IP.
But to answer your question :
If you read the package description (http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/dhcp-client) it says :
Packages providing dhcp-clientdhcpcd5
RFC2131 compliant DHCP client with IPv4LL support
pump
BOOTP and DHCP client for automatic IP configuration
Which means that dhcp-client is in fact one of those packages. Usually it is dhcpd5. So you only have to :
sudo apt-get remove dhcpcd5
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