On Wed, 20 Oct 2021 at 09:31, Chris Green cl@isbd.net wrote:
Is this all on the same physical LAN even though they're different subnets?
No.
The 192.168.8.x subnet only exists between the USB dongle and the Pi, it is "created by" the USB dongle.
However...
If it's the same physical LAN then surely all you need to do is to set up some sort of routing (i.e. use 'route') to allow you simply to tell your browser to go to 192.168.8.1 from 192.168.1.100.
... routing might actually be a solution here - effectively turning the Pi into a router for the 192.168.8.0/24 network. But I don't think it would work, as that would allow me to get traffic to the web server on the dongle, but wouldn't route responses back to me unless I set the routing up on the dongle (which I probably can't do, and if I can it'll be via that web interface!)
So I need the web server on the dongle to see any connection as being from the Pi, but it needs to actually come from my laptop. (I suppose there are other options, like having Firefox run on the Pi and I access that remotely instead, eg via VNC or X) but that's quite a lot to set up just to access one web page!
Mark