In the past I have been able to set a static local IP address and join a linux machine to my local network by plugging it in via the ethernet cable to the switch and doing:
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.23 up
However, when I do this with my newest raspberry pi and try pinging a local machine I ge
PING 192.168.0.12 (192.168.0.12) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 67.130.92.145 icmp_seq=1 Destination Net Unreachable
From 67.130.92.145 icmp_seq=2 Destination Net Unreachable
From 67.130.92.145 icmp_seq=3 Destination Net Unreachable
/sbin/ifconfig
eth0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.0.23 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255
ether dc:a6:32:f2:c0:a4 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 148856 bytes 218800427 (208.6 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 14185 bytes 1133435 (1.0 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
Am I missing a step?
Richard