Static IP seems to be overwritten by something..

[homunculus]

Hi again,

I have another basic question. I just want to set up a static IP address for my Pi to work with a router I have limited access to. (I'm allowed to use 192.168.1.7) I followed the directions on this page:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Configuration

under the section entitled Manual connection at boot using systemd. That seemed to be exactly what I wanted to do so I followed it step by step. Initially it seems to work. But on subsequent reboots it looks like it *sometimes* gets assigned another IP address (the next available one handed out by the router).

Here is exactly what I entered:

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systemctl disable dhcpcd@eth0.service
systemctl status dhcpcd.service
(verify that it's disabled)

nano /etc/conf.d/network@eth0

(with the following content)

address=192.168.1.7
netmask=24
broadcast=192.168.1.255
gateway=192.168.1.1

(and saved)

nano /etc/systemd/system/network@.service

(with the following content)

[Unit]
Description=Network connectivity (%i)
Wants=network.target
Before=network.target
BindsTo=sys-subsystem-net-devices-%i.device
After=sys-subsystem-net-devices-%i.device

[Service]
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=yes
EnvironmentFile=/etc/conf.d/network@%i

ExecStart=/usr/bin/ip link set dev %i up
ExecStart=/usr/bin/ip addr add ${address}/${netmask} broadcast ${broadcast} dev %i
ExecStart=/usr/bin/ip route add default via ${gateway}

ExecStop=/usr/bin/ip addr flush dev %i
ExecStop=/usr/bin/ip link set dev %i down

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

systemctl enable network@eth0.service
systemctl start network@eth0.service

(and saved)

reboot
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I'd like to get this systemd method working (assuming that this is indeed the correct, recommended way of doing things). Am I missing anything? This is fresh install of arch - is there something running in the background that attempts to retrieve an IP address from the router? If there is an error being logged somewhere I'm afraid I don't even know where to look. Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you!

[pepedog]

None of that
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Netctl
Just edit /etc/netctl/eth0
Make sure it's the only file there
Network is enabled with systemctl enable netctl-ifplugd@eth0 (eth0 refers to all files in /etc/netctl where Interface=eth0, not a filename)

[homunculus]

Thank you for that. That was a lot more straight-forward.