Establishing connections on your device without using a router.
Establishing connections on your device without using a router.
Consider enabling a single computer to act as a local Wi-Fi hotspot. You'll still require a working Wi-Fi connection.
You can connect your PC to your phone's hotspot and then share the internet connection through your phone's settings or app.
It's located inside my case, without a monitor or keyboard nearby, and if I can't figure out the IP address I can't connect via SSH. The same goes for my Unraid server—really not wanting to carry around a monitor and keyboard, right? There must be a simpler solution!
This could become inconvenient later on, but assigning static IPs to all devices might help keep communication working without the router. I’m not sure though. When you disconnect the router, each system’s ARP table won’t be updated with the local network. Each device only sees the router, while the router keeps its own list. The switch maintains a Layer 2 table for every device, but still needs to route everything through it. You’d need to rebuild the switch table each time the router is removed, even though static IPs are set. The switch would broadcast messages when requested, keeping the network alive. The main concern is whether the switch can preserve multiple paths if the router is gone. If the router is off, traffic goes through the switch, but rebuilding the table each time causes brief outages. In large enterprises, they use backup routers with duplicate tables so a failure in one doesn’t disrupt service.