How to Configure Static IP Address on Fedora Desktop

Question – How to configure a static IP address on Fedora desktop? Steps to set a static IP address on your Fedora desktop system

This tutorial will help you to configure a static IP Address on your Fedora Desktop system.

Step 1 – Open Network Settings

Login to your Fedora desktop system. After that open settings windows on your Fedora Desktop machine as showing in below screen.

In left sidebar click on Network tab. After that click icon to open setting for your systems network interface as shown in below screen.

This window will show you the current IP address configured on your system. Now select the IPv4 tab.

Step 2 – Configure Static IP on Fedora

Under the IPv4 Method select 「Manual」 option.

The goto the Addresses section and set your IP Address, Netmask, and Gateway. You can also set remote DNS IP addresses. If you don’t know what to set here use 8.8.8.8 and 192.168.1.2 (local DNS server) as shown in below screenshot.

Click Apply to update new settings.

Step 3 – View Current IPs

Press CTRL + ALT + T to launch the terminal on your Fedora system. Now type following IP command to view all IP addresses configured on your system.

ip addr show