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On 11/01/2026 14:33, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
> 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 is all I need. The tv doesnt need to be on the LAN at all post that
and indeed could use the wifi anyway IIRC.
>
> 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
>
The problem is how that is to be accomplished
> 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
>
That isn't particularly helpful.
I am already where I want to be at that moment. The TV will be taken
off the net anyway.
Or connect via wifi. Or I will add a teensy two port swichth somewhere.
It is the use of teh pi as a bridge that I am after.
> 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?
>
No need to segregate. Originally I had a wifi equipped router set up as
a bridge but I want to move that functionality to a PI.
>
> (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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