How to Set Static IP Address on Ubuntu 22.04

Hello folks, in this guide, we will cover how to set static ip address on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish) step by step.

There are two ways to configure static ip address on Ubuntu 22.04,

Command line
GUI (Desktop Environment)

From command line we use either nmcli or netplan command to set static ip address.

Set Static IP address using nmcli command

Open the terminal, run following nmcli commands.

To view the existing connection, run

$ nmcli connection show
$ nmcli

As we can see above, my system has an existing connection named ‘Wired connection 1’ which is using physical nic ‘enp0s3’. In my case, this interface is getting IP address from DHCP server. So, to set the fixed static ip run,

Note: Replace the IP address and connection name as per your environment.

$ sudo nmcli con modify 'Wired connection 1' ifname enp0s3 ipv4.method manual ipv4.addresses 192.168.1.167/24 gw4 192.168.1.1

Add the DNS IP address,

$ sudo nmcli con mod 'Wired connection 1' ipv4.dns 192.168.1.1

Disable & enable the connection, run

$ sudo nmcli con down 'Wired connection 1' && sudo nmcli con up 'Wired connection 1'

Output of above commands would look like below:

Now this ip address is persistent across the reboot. To verify ip address run following ip commands,

$ ip add show
$ ip route show

Alternate way to configure static ip address is via netplan utility.

Create ‘01-netcfg.yaml‘ under the directory /etc/netplan with following content,

$ sudo vi /etc/netplan/01-netcfg.yaml
network:
  version: 2
  renderer: networkd
  ethernets:
    enp0s3: #Change the interface name as per setup
      dhcp4: no
      addresses:
        - 192.168.1.167/24
      routes:
        - to: default
          via: 192.168.1.1
          metric: 100
      nameservers:
        addresses:
          - 192.168.1.1
          - 8.8.4.4