So I recently tried setting up my Pi to monitor network traffic in and out of the network. I have bridge working now but am seeing some odd results and wanted to know if someone could chime in their thoughts? When I run speedtest-cli in the the layout the results are: Internet > (Onboard Ethernet > ...

more info: br0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr REDACTED-Virtual inet addr:169.254.208.187 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 inet6 addr: fe80::7507:3356:4c41:966b/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:362 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:55 errors:0...

I swapped eth0 to be connected to the core switch, and eth1 to be connected to the laptop.
Now I can use the laptop on the internet fine but the pi is unable to download packages (same issue but reversed)

I am attempting to build the following layout: Internal Devices > Firewall > Pi > ISP Provided Modem The goal is to monitor the ammount of data being sent and throttle down as I get close to my network cap. I have purchased a USB to Ethernet adapter as I want this all to be wired, no wireless here. ...

I have followed the guide on https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/wireless/access-point.md to set up my Pi as a AP however I run into an issue when I run hostapd. I have done some troublshooitng steps and fixes so I am unsure if I have made it worse or not. I have detailed the err...