Over the weekend I setup an Ubuntu 12.04 server VM. I edited /etc/network/interfaces so eth0 has a static IP address... going from memory here: netmask 255.255.255.0 ...
Let me preface this post with this: this is my first from scratch build like this and I am more of a jack-of-all-trades IT person rather than a master of one. I have been Googling the crap out of this ...