I am on a production in which I am placing my MacBook Pro running macOS 10.15.7 (Catalina) onto a local network via Ethernet (en8), whose IP addresses are 192.168.1.*
. I also need to be on the Wi-Fi (en0), which is connected to the internet, which I need, who also uses the IP address range 192.168.1.*
.
I only need to talk to one device on the Ethernet (IP address is static at 192.168.1.147
and the MAC address ends in A7:31:F9
). Right now my solution is to make the Ethernet the highest item in the service order, establish my connection, and then move Wi-Fi to the highest, else it won't connect to the internet.
It looks like adding a route might be needed given the according to this Server Fault post, but it looks like they went a different route (no pun intended) since the IP blocks were different.
Probably for another discussion but if there was some way a device on the Wi-Fi network could talk to the same device mentioned above on the Ethernet? That would be even better but that is not as required.