# Templatefile with fixed IP
**URL:** https://forum.opennebula.io/t/templatefile-with-fixed-ip/1434
**Category:** Product Support
**Created:** [November 5, 2015, 1:58pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/templatefile-with-fixed-ip/1434 "2015-11-05T13:58:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Brave](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/Brave)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2015, 1:58pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/templatefile-with-fixed-ip/1434/1 "2015-11-05T13:58:50Z")
Hi guys,
I am pretty sure my question is really basic but for some how I could not figure out how to achieve that from the documentation. I do some development with opennebula, therefore I need to know the IP address the vm is going to have after the deployment. Currently I am using dhcp and my vnet got 8 leases which are used randomly from my point of view!?
Can anybody tell my what exactly to use in the template file to define a fixed IP there?
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### Author:  [@knawnd](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/knawnd)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2015, 10:00am UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/templatefile-with-fixed-ip/1434/2 "2015-11-07T10:00:56Z")
In order to assign a certain IP address to VM I specify the following lines in VM template:
```
NIC=[
IP="123.45.67.89",
NETWORK_ID="2" ]
```
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### Author:  [@Brave](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/Brave)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2015, 4:18pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/templatefile-with-fixed-ip/1434/3 "2015-11-10T16:18:38Z")
Thank you!