How do I set or reset the IP address from the CLI?

After networking has been activated, Lighthouse is configured with two default network connections on its primary network interface:

Name	Config Location	Interface	IP Address
default-conn-1	system.net.conns[0]	net1:static	192.168.0.1/24
default-conn-2	system.net.conns[1]	net1:dhcp	Auto assigned, DHCP client

In the case where there is no DHCP server and/or you are unable to access these addresses, you may set an initial IP address from the VGA console:

• Using your virtualization tools, open a VGA console to Lighthouse
• Login to the Lighthouse CLI as the root user
• Start the configuration REPL with:

ogconfig-cli

• Run these commands to set the static IP address, replacing the example addresses with your own:
• Hint: use the up/down arrow to retrieve previous command instead of retyping the entire syntax.

set system.net.conns[0].static.address '192.168.123.100'
set system.net.conns[0].static.netmask '255.255.255.0'
set system.net.conns[0].static.gateway '192.168.123.1'
set system.net.conns[0].static.dns1 '8.8.8.8'
set system.net.conns[0].enabled true

• Optionally disable the default DHCP client with:

set system.net.conns[1].enabled false

• Apply configuration and exit with:

push
exit

If you are running Lighthouse 5.3.0 or above which supports multi instance, the syntax has changed slightly.

It is now prefixed with the primary lighthouse configuration "lighthouse_configurations[0]"

set lighthouse_configurations[0].system.net.conns[0].static.address '192.168.123.100'
set lighthouse_configurations[0].system.net.conns[0].static.netmask '255.255.255.0'
set lighthouse_configurations[0].system.net.conns[0].static.gateway '192.168.123.1'
set lighthouse_configurations[0].system.net.conns[0].static.dns1 '8.8.8.8'
set lighthouse_configurations[0].system.net.conns[0].enabled true
set lighthouse_configurations[0].system.net.conns[1].enabled false

• Apply configuration and exit with:

push
exit

Troubleshooting

If Lighthouse is still unreachable, run:

ifconfig net1

If this command returns a Device not found error, the virtual NIC has not been detected – please check your VM settings.

To view assigned addresses, run:

ifconfig

Low level interface names are listed in the Interface column in the table above.

Check Lighthouse has a route to network you are trying to reach it from, by examining the output of:

route -n