Subj : Re: Getting along without a keyboard To : Chris Green From : bp@www.zefox.net Date : Sun Sep 15 2024 22:37:29 Chris Green wrote: >> > Three possible things to check:- > > 1 - Are the two Pis on the same subnet? I.e. while you have told us > the whole address for the Pi2 (192.168.1.10) you have only given the > last digit for the Pi5 and the router. What are the full IPV4 > addreses for the Pi5 and the router. Certainly some widely used > routers default to 192.168.0.254 and I'm wondering if that is your > problem. Maybe you even have *two* subnets on the router. The router (A DI-524) has only one subnet (192.168.1.nnn) for which it is the DHCP server. Both Pi5 and Pi4 use DHCP, with the DHCP range from 192.168.1.10 to 192.168.1.20 . > > 2 - Are you using the 'guest' WiFi of the router, this may prevent > connecting between different systems using the WiFi. This may even be > possible to configure with non-guest networks. You'll have to look > into the router configuration to check. > There's nothing called guest mode in the config pages, but there are "filters", described as "allow or deny LAN users from accessing the Internet". Nothing is listed as enabled, so I don't think that's the problem. There are three firewall rules active, allow ping to WAN port, allow LAN to LAN for all protocols and deny WAN to LAN for all protocols. > 3 - Is the Pi2 connected to the same network/router as the Pi5? Are > you sure it's using DHCP to get its address? If so then you should be > able to check on the router that it's connected to as it is the router > that is handing out IP addresses (usually). > > Yes, there is only one router/AP. > The first thing I would be doing is to look at the routers's Web GUI > to check what it thinks is going on and what is connected to where. > > The DHCP range is limited to 192.168.1.nnn, with no distinction between wired and wireless connections. There's clearly bridging from wirless to wired devices such as the printer, which works and can be pinged. Maybe there's a firewall between wireless clients. I've certainly not needed such connections much. I'll poke around on the Web to see if there are any references to Guest Mode online. The internal help pages are close to useless, and the configuration menus are worse. Thanks for writing, and your patient good counsel! bob prohaska --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3) .