November 2014
Beginner to intermediate
248 pages
4h 40m
English
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CHAPTER 7
Ethernet
Networking has become an important part of everyday life, whether wireless or by wire. Having a network adapter on your Raspberry Pi allows you to connect to it and do things on it from the comfort of your desktop or laptop computer. It also allows your application on the Pi to reach out to the outside world. Even when the Raspberry Pi is deployed as part of an embedded project, the network interface continues to be important. Remote logging and control are just two examples.
Wired Ethernet
The standard Raspbian SD card image provides a wired network connection, using DHCP to automatically assign an IP address to it. If you ...