I suddenly need a wired connection for a job starting very soon but it won’t be hooked up for quite some time. I have my neighborswifi password though. Iknow this is a longshot, but would I be able to use my laptop to change a wireless connection into a wired connection?

It’s an older desktop Mac managed by the company. My laptop is an HP omen 15 with arch Linux on it

  • pageflight@piefed.socialEnglish
    21·
    12 hours ago

    If you just run dhcpd on eth0 would that be enough? I’m assuming no based on your answer.

    • INeedMana@piefed.zipEnglish
      1·
      55 minutes ago

      Ah, that link did not go into details, I’m sorry. Take a look here. It might look daunting but effectively it was just a few lines AFAIR

    • osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org
      7·
      12 hours ago

      No, because there wouldn’t be anything connecting the two ports together. In your scenario, all each side would be able to do would be to talk to ‘cpu’, there would be no mechanism to forward traffic upstream without iptables or something similar handling that function.