Switching from wifi to wired

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#1

Just wondered if someone could explain to me …

Pi running Raspbian headless and Laptop running Debian with Gnome desktop.

I’m syncing a 67 GiB folder from pi to laptop (folder initially empty).

Thought I might speed things up a bit if I connected a cable to the router which already had the pi cable connected. I don’t normally do this as it’s a trip hazard.

Switched off laptop wifi and checked ok by browsing to BBC.

No connection pi - laptop.

Restarted st on laptop. No joy.

Restarted st on pi. No.

Rebooted laptop. No.

Rebooted pi. AOK -connection made.

So, is it that syncthing some routing information over restarts but not over reboots?

Or something else?

#2

If you restarted syncthing on both ends and it didn’t help, it’s most likely your laptop/pi/router which had some routing information cached, as it did fix itself after you restarted them.

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