Hi! I hope this is the right community to ask.

Next week I will be on the road for 5 Days for work. I have quite some spare time, so I thought I would dig up my raspberry project again and hopefully finish it.

I need it with me, because it controls some hardware, so a VPN to home does not work. So only option I could think of, is to connect the pi directly to my laptop via an ethernet cable. As far as I understood from some research is that I would need to install and run an DHCP server on my laptop, which they did not recommend. Alternatively they suggested to just take a router and plug both devices in there. I don’t really have a spare router, so that’s not an option either.

To be hones it confuses me a little, that there does not seem to be a standard for connecting to a device directly over a single cable and login with a user account.

Any recommendations how I can work on the pi like with ssh?

Thanks a lot!

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I remember from back in the day that you need a "twisted pair” edit: ”cross-over” cable though, or do modern ethernet ports automatically adapt to that now?

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Twisted pair refers to the twisting of the wires in the cable to reduce crosstalk.

      Crossover cables enable permit connecting two non-sensing ports together.

      • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Right 🤦‍♂️ It has been a while. I corrected it in the original post now.

        • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
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          2 years ago

          I hear ya. I know all this stuff, but dammit if it isn’t hard to access sometimes! Haha