Bob,
Is this the DVSwitch Server image or did you do a pat-get install
dvswitch-server on a running system?

On 11/4/2020 11:34 AM, Bob Brown wrote:
> Update, with the help of Steve - N4IRS
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> Mornin' Steve, and all other ships at sea...
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> Well, I have had my Coffee and I made a few changes as suggested.
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> 1. Here is what I did on the cmdline.txt file in the /boot/ directory
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> console=serial0,115200 console=tty1 root=PARTUUID=ba1c0260-02 rootfstype=ext4
> elevator=deadline fsck.repair=yes rootwait ipv6.disable=1
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> It worked to disable the IPv6, I tried this first to see what happens, it disabled the IPv6 but the 169.xxx.xxx.xxx dhcp address stayed.
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> So I did the next step as the 2nd suggestion.
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> 2. The is funny on this pi, the naming scheme "eth0" is not what it is called on this pi it is some long string of characters:  "enxb827eb692453"
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> I did an "ifconfig" first to get the name of the eth0 interface.
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> I then copied that string "enxb827eb692453"
> Replacing the "eth0" with the string "enxb827eb692453"
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> This I put at the end of the "/etc/dhcpcd.conf" file
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> interface enxb827eb692453
> static ip_address=10.20.20.10/24
> static routers=10.20.20.254
> static domain_name_servers=4.4.4.4 8.8.8.8
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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> I did this editing with "sudo nano" then saved of course in both files...
> Using nano by itself would not allow a save, I had to use sudo.
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> Then Rebooted and checked for IP change, It worked! :)
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> The end result was a static IPv4 address and no IPv6.
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> All for now
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> Many thanks to all that wrote back.
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> I hope this helps someone else.
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> Bob, W0NQX
> aka DrSm0ke
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