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!

  • JASN_DE@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    9 months ago

    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.

    Or simply set up the Pi with a static IP.

    there does not seem to be a standard for connecting to a device directly over a single cable and login with a user account.

    There is. A cable. You just need two non-identical IPs from the same subnet, e.g. 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2 or whichever you want from the private ranges.

    • Bitflip@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      This for sure, and bonus points for “USB Ethernet gadget” mode if you have a 4 or zero ;)