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--- vms:webdev:start [2014/10/30 14:12]
admin [Setup Network Adapters]
+++ vms:webdev:start [2014/10/30 14:21]
admin [Setup Network Adapters]
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 This will indicate the allocated DHCP address for your VM, here 10.0.7.61.
-From there you might want to use a terminal emulator to access the VM as it will usually be easier to use than the standard VM screen that has no scroll back and copy/paste functionality for example.
+From there you might want to use a terminal emulator to access the VM as it will usually be easier to use than the standard VM screen that has no scroll back or copy/paste functionality for example.
-Let's now fix the secondary (local) IP address, to this purpose, let's modify the // /etc/network/interfaces // file:
+Let's now fix the secondary (local) IP address. To this purpose, let's modify the // /etc/network/interfaces // file to make it look like what follows:
 <code>
 > nano /etc/network/interfaces
+# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
+# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
+# The loopback network interface
+auto lo
+iface lo inet loopback
+# The primary network interface
+allow-hotplug eth0
+iface eth0 inet dhcp
+# Alias for static inner interface
+auto eth1
+iface eth1 inet static
+   name static alias LAN card
+   address 172.20.20.2
+   netmask 255.255.255.0
+   broadcast 172.20.20.255
+   network 172.20.20.0
 </code>
+We only still need to restart the secondary interface to activate the newly set fixed IP address, then check that is correctly set:
+<code>
+> ifdown eth1 && ifup eth1
+ifdown: interface eth1 not configured
+> ip addr show
+: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
+    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
+    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
+    inet6 ::1/128 scope host
+       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
+: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
+    link/ether 08:00:27:55:21:b7 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
+    inet 10.0.7.61/24 brd 10.0.7.255 scope global eth0
+    inet6 fe80::a00:27ff:fe55:21b7/64 scope link
+       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
+: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
+    link/ether 08:00:27:6e:8b:7d brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
+    inet 172.20.20.2/24 brd 172.20.20.255 scope global eth1
+    inet6 fe80::a00:27ff:fe6e:8b7d/64 scope link
+       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
+</code>
+The last block (3: eth1:) indicates that our secondary interface is well set with the targeted fixed IP address 172.20.20.2
+We're ready to move on...
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 It is now time to [[apache|install the HTTP Server (Apache2)]].