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I've got a Netgear router which is acting as a DHCP server. There I've configured the MAC address of my RaspPI for obtaining a reserved/fixed IP address.

Unfortunately when booting the RaspPI no IP address is being obtained and assigned to the ethernet interface, hence the box is unreachable on the LAN.

When removing the reserved/fixed IP configuration all is just peachy, and the RaspPI is being presented with the first free IP of the DHCP pool.

How to tackle this one, so that the RaspPI can obtain the reserved/fixed IP from the router?

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Do you have any other devices that successfully get static IP addresses? – HeatfanJohn Jan 10 at 2:05
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The solution is probably on the Netgear router. I use a fixed IP assignment based on the MAC address of my pi on my Fedora DHCP server and it works fine. – TomG Jan 10 at 2:59
Please upload a screen shot of the config page from the Netgear router, where you set the statis IP of the RPi. I had to do this and also found that the Netgear instructions were not too clear. – Vincent P Jan 10 at 5:49
You're going to need to assign it on the Raspberry Pi itself. I had this same problem running DD-WRT on my router. If you do it on the Pi, you can even assign a specific gateway and subnet whereas most routers will automatically assign those (with no way to change it). – Andrew Larsson Jan 10 at 17:25
Yes, all other devices are working properly fine! Only the RaspPI is having some issues! :( – user4338 Jan 10 at 18:56
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Try this. I am not sure if you are having the same problem as me. I was not able to access the internet through my raspberry pi neither was i getting it connected to the lan through it. I tried sudo ifup eth0 and got the error message as the one shown in the link.

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