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I have seen some similar questions posted but no firm response on how to do this.

Raspberry Pi 4, connected through WiFi on the network. MAC is also connected to the WiFi Router.

What i want to do is connect my MAC's Ethernet to a switch and the RPi to the same switch so i can access the RPi on a wired connection instead of the WiFi, but want to leave the RPi connected to WiFi for internet and ancillary access.

I have tried a VLAN setup for my Ethernet port on the MAC, and tried the same network schema and different private one, but cannot get it all working together.

Please let me know if you have had a similar configuration work.

Thank you

Tony

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"but no firm response on how to do this" because you haven't actually said what "this" is. I presume by "MAC" you mean an Apple Mac.

The Pi (or indeed ANY computer) can independently configure network interfaces. See How to set up networking/WiFi for details using the default dhcpcd.

I would't use a switch to connect a Mac to a Pi, just an Ethernet cable, but if you have a router I wouldn't normally use any direct connection.

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I am not sure if I use the terminology correct, so what I call a router might be a switch, but whatever: I have a wifi-extender, two raspberry pi's (4B and 5), Windows laptop and a MacBook Air, all connected over ethernet with the same extremely simpel router. No software setup needed. Plugging all in and it just works.

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