On Thursday, September 29, 2016 at 22:44:13 PM UTC-4, Sam Roza wrote: > > Yeah, you're right about switches, of course. Well, I guess it's time to > break down and buy a Pi... > > A Pi3, and some bridge work, and I should be up and running. > > Matt, would you suggest the DNS methods over the other capture and scrape > methods (like the tcpdump captures and whatnot)? If so, I'm wondering how > to get a Pi to do DNS resolution just for this one device-though if I'm > bridging the ethernet port to the wifi driver, I'm guessing that it would > pass through and not be possible. So then I'd be back to the tcpdump > methods, which everyone here seems to be quite familiar with (and > therefore, support might be a bit easier). >
sam, the dns approach is easiest, but of course that is possible only if you control the dns on your network, or if you can configure the weather station to use a machine you control for its dns queries. is there any way to configure the os internet gateway? can you tell it which dns server(s) to use? if so, then install bind on the pi and bob's your uncle. if you have to use the pi3 to bridge, then you'll have to plug the os internet bridge into the pi ethernet port and connect the pi to your network via wifi. alternatively, add a usb-ethernet dongle to the pi and bridge from wired to wired. technically you do not even have to bridge - you just need to make the os internet bridge think that the pi is the os weather server. m
