Changing the Server IP address
- Use a remote terminal to log in to the original IP address to change the server IP address. The following describes how to change the server IP address on Ubuntu 20.04.3.
- Run the following command to view and modify the existing IP address configuration, and then save the file. See the following figure.
vim /etc/netplan/00-installer-config.yaml

- renderer:networkd specifies whether the backend uses systemd-networkd or Network Manager. If this parameter is left blank, systemd-networkd is used by default.
- dhcp4:no and dhcp6:no: disable DHCP. To enable DHCP, change no to yes.
- addresses: configured static IP address and mask
- gateway4: gateway address
- nameservers:addresses: DNS server addresses. Separate multiple DNS server addresses with commas (,).
- Run the following command to make the configured IP address take effect:
netplan apply
- Run the following command to check whether the new IP address takes effect:
ifconfig
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