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   On 11/01/2026 12:58, The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
   > Situation: I have one ethernet port in a room near the TV and would like   
   > to make the  smart TV not a TV so to speak, and instead drive it from a   
   > Pi 5 as a HDMI screen and use the Pi for any or all smart capabilities.   
   >   
   > But I also need wifi access to the network in that room as well, and the   
   > pi 5 comes with wifi,   
   >   
   > But I have never seen it configured as a *bridge* to the network and   
   > DHCP server via the Ethernet.   
   >   
   > Does anyone have a link to a magic spell book for this configuration?   
   >   
   > TIA   
   > TNP   
   >   
      
   Start with a recipe for a wireless access point?   
      
   that will have a built-in bridge that the wireless clients will appear   
   on, DHCP etc, and will connect to the pi's physical NIC   
      
   Then you'll need to add a virtual NIC to this, for your TV software and   
   connect that also to the bridge, via some local firewall rules.   
      
   https://linuxconfig.org/configuring-virtual-network-interfaces-in-linux   
      
   Or perhaps switch-like something hanging both the bridge i/o and a   
   virtual NIC on the original physical NIC, using VLAN IDs to segregate   
   traffic to each?   
      
      
   (theoretically handwaving here, I've done the above in the OS of a   
   carboot sale cheepie 50p speedtouch router, not linux)   
      
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