Easy Guide to Assigning Static IP Addresses on CentOS / RHEL (7 & 8) | Linux Today

Easy Guide to Assigning Static IP Addresses on CentOS / RHEL (7 & 8)

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Shusain
May 14, 2021

DHCP servers are used almost in all organizations or even in our home routers for assigning IP addresses to get access to the internet. Usually, when we enable our network interface on our CentOS 7 or 8 systems, an IP address is assigned automatically through that DHCP server & we have access to the internet or to our LAN network.

But we might be required to assign static IP addresses in our CentOS 7 or 8 machines. So what do we do? We need to manually assign a static IP address to our servers. In this tutorial, we will learn how to assign static IP addresses in CentOS 7 or 8 machines. 

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