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
    2·
    8 months 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
      51·
      8 months 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
        3·
        8 months ago

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

        • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
          11·
          8 months ago

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

      • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        8 months ago

        Most modern NICs can auto-negotiate the Rx/Tx circuits on either kind of cable, but I’m not sure about RPi.

          • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            2·
            8 months ago

            If I remember correctly, 1000Base-T standard has a requirement that device has to negotiate pinout on the fly. No matter which pin is connected to which. Obvioiusly just randomly wiring a cable up has other problems, like signal-to-noise, but in theory it should work even if you make a cable that’s as unstandard as you can make it.

            • jkrtn@lemmy.mlEnglish
              1·
              8 months ago

              That’s amazing. I would love to see the algorithm for that. Hopefully I’ll find a nice explainer if I search around.

    • kuneho@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      I think it doesn’t matter nowadays. Network interfaces are smart enough to twist them internally, or at least, this is what I experienced. I have no idea when did I had to use specifically a crosswire cable, all of my ethernet cables are patch cables for a while now.

      So, it shouldn’t be a problem.