Static IP Address for Raspbian

To create a static IP address for Raspbian.

vi /etc/network/interfaces

Change the line

iface eth0 inet dhcp

to

iface eth0 inet static

and add the following lines immediately after the line above otherwise adding the lines to the end of the file will assign the information to the wireless network wlan0.

address 192.168.1.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.1.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
gateway 192.168.1.254

Here is an example of my config file.

auto lo

iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet static

address 192.168.13.252
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.13.0
broadcast 192.168.13.255
gateway 192.168.13.254

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