Setting a static IP for Arch Linux on Raspberry PI

This is something that has been bothering me for the last months. I tried it in several different ways but none of them solved my problem. No matter the changes I made, after rebooting the Pi it always got both and static and dynamic IPs…

After all these months I finally found the solution, yay! 😀

This magic was hidden in the comments section of this blog. (kudos to Tchelovek)

As of today (23/03/2015) installing Archlinux on a Raspberry Pi (B+ / 2) does not use dhcpcd at all, instead systemd-networkd is used.To change from DHCP to static IP editing /etc/systemd/network/eth0.network is required.

By default it contains

[Match]
Name=eth0
[Network]
DHCP=bothOne needs to modify it to

[Match]
Name=eth0
[Network]
#DHCP=both
DNS=192.168.178.1
Address=192.168.178.22
Gateway=192.168.178.1(change IPs as required)

Review at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd-networkd#Basic_DHCP_network

Tchelovek

Turns out the newest versions of Arch use systemd-network, so in order to set up a static IP for eth0 you need to edit this file…

# vi /etc/systemd/network/eth0.network

… and add something like…

[Match]
Name=eth0

[Network]
DNS=192.168.1.1
Address=192.168.1.XXX
Gateway=192.168.1.1

Before finishing don’t forget to disable dhcp and netctl services. You won’t need them anymore.

# systemctl disable dhcpcd@eth0.service

# systemctl disable netctl

After rebooting, the Pi should get the IP specified on eth0.network

Cheers!

Daniel.