Configuring static networking

TCP/IP is the primary technology used for communicating between computers today. When first building out an environment, one of the first items to accomplish is to define and apply an IP addressing scheme. Once the addressing scheme is defined, we can create static addresses for our first servers. Later, we will configure DHCP in case static addressing is not desired for all of the systems in your environment.

Getting ready

From the following diagram we can see that we have already defined our addressing scheme using both IPv4 and IPv6. At the start of our network, we have a router acting as a default gateway, and we will configure two servers in preparation for becoming domain controllers. The default gateway router is already statically assigned with IPv4 and IPv6 addresses:

All three of these components are connected to a common Ethernet segment to communicate with each other.

Note

Before defining any networking configuration, we should confirm that our addresses...