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> some devices expose ethernet over HDMI wait, is this really a thing? I've heard about hdmi over ethernet, but ethernet over hdmi? also it seems it would be a

by aulin 5y ago

> some devices expose ethernet over HDMI wait, is this really a thing? I've heard about hdmi over ethernet, but ethernet over hdmi? also it seems it would be a lot trouble to bridge the wifi connection and dhcp to this ethernet over hdmi interface, why should they do it?

LASR 5y ago
Yes. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#HDMI_Ethernet_and_Audio_Return_Channel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#HDMI_Ethernet_and_Audio_R...
- ziml77 5y ago
  Using Ethernet to communicate between the connected devices doesn't mean that either device is acting as a router to send packets beyond that direct link.
- aulin 5y ago
  TIL! doesn't seem it really gained any popularity though to be really a security concern