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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!

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

~~You jump between 196 and 169 in your comment.~~

It's not just Windows that uses 169.254. That's a special block used for self assigned link-local addresses.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

oops, fixed. Caffeine withdrawal is hell.