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Raspberry Pi Networking Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Rick Golden
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Raspberry Pi Networking Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Rick Golden

Overview of this book

<p>With increasing interest in Maker Projects and the Internet of Things (IoT), students, scientists, and hobbyists are using the Raspberry Pi as a reliable, inexpensive platform to connect local devices to Internet services.</p> <p>This book begins with recipes that are essential to installing the Raspberry Pi and configuring it for network access. Then it continues with recipes on installing common networking services such as firewalls and file sharing.</p> <p>The final chapters include recipes for network monitoring, streaming data from the Raspberry Pi to IoT services, and using clusters of Raspberry Pis to store and analyze large volumes of data.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Raspberry Pi Networking Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Configuring a static IP address


This recipe configures a Raspberry Pi so that it has a static IP address.

A static IP address, unlike the dynamic addresses provided by a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server, does not change. Network servers on a wired network connection (for example, web servers, wikis, and wireless access points) generally have static IP addresses to provide a consistent telephone-number-like reference for use by its network clients (for example, web browsers, mobile phones, and other Internet devices). Servers that have a static IP address are easier to find.

After completing this recipe, you will be able to configure a static network IP address.

Getting ready

Ingredients:

An Initial Setup or Basic Networking setup for the Raspberry Pi that has been powered on. You have also logged in as the user pi (see the recipes in Chapter 1, Installation and Setup for how to boot and log in and the recipes in Chapter 2, Administration for how to log in remotely).

This recipe...