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Using a Static IP Address on a Raspberry Pi Connected to my Nighthawk Router
Hi, I have a couple of Raspberry Pis connected to my Home Network which is provided by my Netgear Router. Ideally I want to set up a static IP Address for each of these Pis, but I cannot make th...
schumaku wrote:So t the end of the day, what went wrong and broke the Pi <-> D7800 connection and the Internet connection finally?
The router was unaware of the presence of the Webserver, so didn't route Google traffic when I was trying to use the Static IP.
Ok, so you have a wired connection on one of the Ethernet ports for the link to the router - not much of a difference: A static config on that interface should to the job with a few potential deal breakers like WiFI isolation. The ping and traffic capturing was clearly intended for testing the link from the Pi to the router of course. Anything beyond is your Pi project business 8-). Everything I wrote above does still apply - as all that has to work and that's the only part where the router is affected.
So t the end of the day, what went wrong and broke the Pi <-> D7800 connection and the Internet connection finally?
schumaku wrote:So t the end of the day, what went wrong and broke the Pi <-> D7800 connection and the Internet connection finally?
The router was unaware of the presence of the Webserver, so didn't route Google traffic when I was trying to use the Static IP.