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@abelaguilar indeed you do not have to fill out the dns and gateway fields - in fact as you surmised you shouldn't. Where you getting an error or something when leaving them blank? The only mandatory fields are IP and netmask.
@abelaguilar Sounds good, yeah I think that is the easiest method to go about it, rather than direct attached networking.