Thanks! I don’t know why my post got posted twice in this same thread, but let me know what you find out!

Thanks dude! That helps, however, I am still unable to connect via SSH to the Pi0. What IP am I supposed to use to get connected? I am currently getting a “Self-Assigned IP” from the Pi0. To combat that, I tried setting a static IP in the /etc/network/interface file for usb0 instead of using DHCP. That fixed the “Self-Assigned IP” problem, however, I am still not able to connect to the Pi0 via SSH. I made sure to make a file w/o any extension called, ssh in the boot partition. I tried pinging the IP that I statically set on the Pi0 and I get no response, which is odd because my Mac says the Pi0 is connected using that IP.

Okay so, I have been able to SSH into the Pi0 via setting a static address inside /etc/network/interfaces:

allow-hotplug usb0
iface usb0 inet static
address 192.168.7.2
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.7.0
broadcast 192.168.7.255
gateway 192.168.7.1

I then made sure to manually set that information into my Mac’s Raspberry Pi Zero interface:

From there I was able to SSH into the Pi0 using:

ssh root@192.168.7.2 (Notice it’s not 192.168.7.1)

I then try pinging 8.8.8.8 from the Pi0 via SSH, I get no response from the server, see below:

However, I made sure to turn on ICS on my Mac to route internet from WiFi to the Raspberry Pi Zero interface, so the Pi0 should be connected to the internet, see below:

Re4son, why do you think this is occurring?

Keep in mind that, When I use dhcp instead of static, the Pi0 gets a self-assigned IP Address. I make sure to have ICS turned on and routing internet from WiFi to the Raspberry Pi Zero.

Okay, good to know.

The output of traceroute 8.8.8.8 is shown below:

I don’t know why the command traceroute is not found. It should be installed by default?

Let me know what your colleagues say about the ICS.

Yeah sometimes a Mac can be a pain in the a%!e.

Okay cool, that worked to get SSH connection via avahi @ kali-pi.local, however, my Pi0 is not obtaining an IP from the network, see below:

I do have ICS turned on, as seen below:

Does this have anything to do with my Pi0?

I recently bought a Pi0W and I preloaded the StickyFingers Armel image onto it. I configured /boot/config.txt and /boot/cmdline.txt and added /boot/avahi. I modified the contents of the /etc/network/interface file to connect to my network on wlan0, see below:

auto wlan0
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-ssid "MyNetworkName"
wpa-psk "MyNetworkPassword"

To enable wlan0 I did the following:

mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /boot
cd re4son_kali-pi-tft_kernel_4*
./install.sh

I then rebooted and it connected to my network using the on-board WiFi.

However, the issue of ICS to Ethernet Gadget on the Pi0 Non-WiFi edition still remains, as shown above. Any idea last ideas about that?

Hi Re4son,

Ahh okay, so then, I guess it can’t obtain an internet connection via ICS while avahi is enabled? In order for the Pi0 to obtain a valid IP address and display a green light instead of an amber light with “Self-Assigned IP” is to disable avahi? Or is it not possible at all? That wouldn’t make sense in my opinion, but like you said, because I am able to SSH into the Pi0 with avahi that would indicate that ICS is working? I thought if ICS was working it would display a green light instead of an amber light. What are you thoughts?

Please note: both the Pi0 and Pi0W cannot obtain a valid IP address using ICS with g_ether module enabled. As you saw, it appears as an amber light with “Self-Assigned IP” instead of a green light with a valid IP address. The only way for the Pi0W to obtain a valid IP address is to enable wlan0 as I did above and tell it to connect to a given AP.

Yeah that would make sense, but if you take a look below, you will see that apparently it is not working.

Below is the interface, Raspberry Pi Zero, in System Preferences>Network:

Sharing Settings:

Ping kali-pi.local

yeah, that is correct. I can ssh into kali-pi.local, but cannot ping.

I also do not get an IP address like I am supposed too. I issue the ifconfig -a command on the Pi0 and I do not get an inet address even though ICS is working just fine as you’ve seen. Take a look:

The only issue is that this Pi I’m using doesn’t have built-in wifi, thus, I cannot connect to the internet unless ICS is working. I’m at college at the moment and the WiFi here is 802.1x protected, so I am forced to use my iPhone’s hotspot to allow ICS, which has been the network I have been using and showcasing in this thread.

Ahh, awesome! That make’s a lot of sense.

However, I do not see an option in the preference pane for Sharing on the mac to disable IPv6; how do I go about disabling IPv6 addresses?

Okay, I did that and I still get a IPv6 address:

After following your steps, I get the following output:

It returns:

No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.

Why?

Yeah, I did enable it, not noticing that you forgot that step.

So what you read in my previous reply had “ICS” enabled.

via WiFi.

Yeah everything is the same as yours.

So, I decided to delete the interface on my Mac and reinstall the RNDIS drivers from: HoRNDIS for Mac.

After, installing, I unplugged the Pi0 and reconfigured the interface to set IPv6 to “Link-local only”.

Then I plugged in the Pi0 into the Mac and ssh’ed to kali-pi.local and ran:

ifdown usb0 && ifup usb0 && ifconfig usb0

I then obtained the correct IP address. See below:

So, I guess this was just a case of a bad interface and just needed to reinstall and reconfigure the interface as you’ve said.

Anyways, thanks for your help! I really appreciate it. Keep up the good work with your Kali Linux Raspberry Pi kernel.