Static addresses in Debian

If you want to change the way your rpi gets the IP address (by default, from a DHCP server), you have to follow the next steps:

Edit your interface file, located on /etc/network/

Change your file, changing the parameters higlighted by those which better adjust to your IP configuration:

auto lo

iface lo inet loopback

iface eth0 inet static
address 172.16.0.200
netmask 255.255.0.0
broadcast 172.16.255.255
gateway 172.16.0.1

allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet manual
wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

iface default inet dhcp

Restarting the rPi:

sudo shutdown -r now

Check the changes has been made:

pi@jamesrpi ~ $ ifconfig

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr b8:27:eb:e6:44:e0

          inet addr:172.16.0.200  Bcast:172.16.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0

          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:113 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:69 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

          RX bytes:9398 (9.1 KiB)  TX bytes:10213 (9.9 KiB)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback

          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0

          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1

          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)