Grrr, just followed the tute word for word on fresh jessie stretch lite install and wouldn't work (didn't carry out the bridge portion) the fact that it's lite shouldn't make a difference if the right packages are installed? Did manage to get wlan0 on a static ip though woo! Searched for the newly c...

Thanks mate I did read your tutorial on this from reading a shed load of other posts across a lot of forums! If it works well then i'll ditch the switch and wires idea. is there a way of maintaining the lease for each allocated ip address, or actually fixing the ip in place once it's allocated? I'd ...

I'm going round in circles with this, primarily due to /etc/network/interfaces being defunct in Stretch and i'd rather learn to use the up to date method. My intention was to connect pi's to a switch, with one of them having a longer distance usb wifi connection, and using this pi via it's eth0 port...