Networking and servers • Re: wifi to Ethernet

Bridging works. Plus the Pi 4 has the capacity to host a backup disk. You can connect your Linux notebook to the disk with NFS. Relatively easy.
I used a Pi Zero 2 for a bridge until I also needed a backup server.

If you have an Evil OS, you might need Samba which is harder to config. Samba needs a good GUI interface. I gave up on Samba as I no longer use anything closed source on any of my computers.

There are some easy ways to set up a bridge and some more complicated ways. I had to use a complicated way as I also wanted a second WiFi so needed routing on top of the bridge. I am not at a Pi today. From what I remember, the Network GUI has a bridge option. For anything more complicated, you need to use nmcli, the Network Manager command line interface.

Before networking or any config, these are good to browse. One mentions bridge as Wi-Fi -> Wi-Fi but it can be any to any.
https://raspberry.tips/en/raspberrypi-t ... int-bridge
https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentati ... ation.html
https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentati ... networking

Statistics: Posted by peterlite — Sun May 31, 2026 2:25 am

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