Headless connection Raspberry Pi , unable to ping/ssh

Question

My setup PI 3B+ OS : Raspian

Trying to connect the pi headless using my laptop. Both Pi and Laptop are connected to same wireless router.

Added the below config in wpa_supplicant.conf with correct credentials

ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
update_config=1
country=<Insert country code here>

network={
 ssid="<Name of your WiFi>"
 psk="<Password for your WiFi>"
}

Also added ssh file to boot folder fo SD card.

On bootup can see Pi is connected to Wifi, router lists the Pi with IP address(192.168.0.101) When I try to ping the Pi from Laptop using this IP, get below error

Pinging 192.168.0.101 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.0.104: Destination host unreachable.

please help in setting the Pi in headless mode correctly. Thanks

Does this answer your question? How do I set up networking/WiFi/static IP address? — Milliways, Mar 22 '20 at 22:46
Does your router have a ping tool to ping the raspberry pi's address (192.168.0.101)? — M. Rostami, Mar 22 '20 at 23:12
I believe you did not enable SSH. Please see and follow the procedure here: Enable SSH Also, please post the actual supplicant file you used. It's not clear that you edited it correctly. — jwh20, Mar 22 '20 at 17:20

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 25 '20 at 17:13

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Thanks guys for the comments.

I got a clue from Ingo's comment. Issue was with the router configuration which was blocking clients to ping each other. Changed the router config and am able to ssh to my pi board

Special thanks to Ingo :) cheers :)

answered Mar 25 '20 at 17:13

DarkKnight

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That security setting on the router was exactly my guess :-) – Ingo Mar 26 '20 at 09:34

Headless connection Raspberry Pi , unable to ping/ssh

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