Working with Raspberry PI (RPI) is fun. If you do not want to directly plug your monitor and keyboard always to your RPI, then you need to configure Static IP on the RPI. Typically in home environment, you will connect your RPI to your router and then need to control the RPI from your PC using SSH. In a router with DHCP enabled, you need to have static IP for your RPI so that IP will not be changed even router is restarted. Following instructions will show how to set up your RPI with static IP. Requirement: RPI is loaded with Raspbian and complete the initial setup. Monitor and Keyboard connected to RPI Configuration Steps (Single Network) Open network configuration file using following command sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces Update network configuration file as below. auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.123.101 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.123.254 Save the file by pressing "CTRL+O" and exit editor