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    Recommended Router in 2022 Please

    Any idea if the speed issue was down to the powerline adapter or cabling in the house? Which ones did you try? A friend of mine is moving to an older house that doesn't lend itself well to running ethernet cables and eyeing up the Devolo Mesh 2 bundles. Just wondering whether he's going to find...
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    ad blocking

    For those running dual pi-hole, any recommendations for syncing local DNS entries, white lists etc? @bennor - While an SSD is overkill for pi-hole, another benefit is that if worried about failure you can monitor the health of it. No guarantees it'll catch things before failure but better than...
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    Solved WOL - Wake on Lan over the Internet - magic packet RT-AC68U 386.4

    You can check using arp -a You should see an entry for 192.168.1.254
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    Solved WOL - Wake on Lan over the Internet - magic packet RT-AC68U 386.4

    OK, reduce the DHCP range so it only goes up to 192.168.1.253 - you don't want the router allocating out the .254 address otherwise it will start broadcasting all traffic destined for that machine to the whole network. The arp command should do the job - it won't make a permanent change to the...
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    Solved WOL - Wake on Lan over the Internet - magic packet RT-AC68U 386.4

    Couple of stupid questions first.... Subnet the router is configured for as DHCP is 192.168.1.x and the DHCP pool is limited to not hand out 192.168.1.254 - correct? If you're using a different IP range for your LAN then update the IP accordingly. If that's the case and the port forward is in...
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    Solved WOL - Wake on Lan over the Internet - magic packet RT-AC68U 386.4

    I can't find the original config I had for this but simply forwarding to an IP won't work as the host isn't awake to own it. Last time I did this, I reserved an IP address to forward all packets received on port 9 to and then had an additional arp command added as part of router start up that...
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    WiFi and Wired Device connection issues

    What's the DHCP pool configuration? A friend of mine had similar issues - turned out he'd maxed out the DHCP pool on the router. Once that was amended no more issues. I'd suggest checking /var/lib/misc/dnsmasq.leases to get an accurate view of IP allocation rather than relying on network map...
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    Interpretation of speed test results

    What do you get if you do a test on the AX88U over ethernet? There will be differences in the AX88U vs BT Hub on how they work so it would still need to be an ethernet vs ethernet test for comparison. To be honest, while Wifi can theoretically cope with those high speeds I'd do any speed testing...
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    How to reroute traffic?

    I missed the port element - DNS to redirect all requests would work (albeit also affecting the local instance of the service which, depending what it is, could still need external access) but in this case the ask is only to redirect traffic destined to a single port. Doh!
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    How to reroute traffic?

    Depends on the exact use case as to whether DNS would be helpful. Do you want this rule to apply to everyone on the LAN or only a specific client? One other consideration - you don't mention whether you're using DHCP or static IP assignment for the client. Best option would probably be...
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    Per IP Traffic accounting

    Out of curiosity, what's behind the need for real time data? Beyond data points in influx and graphs what do you need the data real time for? Just wondering whether there may be other ways to achieve the end goal.
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    Per IP Traffic accounting

    In my case it only needed to run once a day so I didn't worry too much about 10 minutes vs hourly. Best bet would be to spend a bit of time looking at the data and see - suggest taking a copy of the DB for that while experimenting though! There only seems to be the single traffic table in the...
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    Per IP Traffic accounting

    I was clearly half asleep earlier... So the following is an extract (scrubbed!) of a script I put on a friends AX router because he wanted to get an alert if a client downloaded above a threshold in a day - grab it from the SQLite database and uses Pushover to send the alert. #!/bin/sh #...
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    Per IP Traffic accounting

    That'll be the pre-SQLite world then - thanks for correcting me. It was a while ago...
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    Per IP Traffic accounting

    If they're the scripts I'm thinking of you'll want to look for rstats and cstats. From memory being router stats and client stats - I seem to recall they break down in to 2 minute chunks of data but most of the scripts I saw kicking around the internet were fairly old. For some reason searching...
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    How to setup Pi-hole to work with Merlin?

    Haven't tried it but the idea of SSD boot, more specifically the capacity of SSDs vs SD cards, got me thinking about how to support multiple Pis from a single storage device i.e. network boot. Turns out you can do that with a Pi too -...
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    How to setup Pi-hole to work with Merlin?

    Fair point not to under estimate the logic of the clients. Must admit though if I set an order for dns that's the order I want so not sure on the DNS2 behaviour you've seen. I did see some write ups for pi-hole on a multi-node kubernetes cluster and as appealing is it sounds from a "because we...
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    How to setup Pi-hole to work with Merlin?

    How well does the 2 pi-hole approach work when the first one fails and is non-responsive? Was wondering on a similar setup but if failure of the primary pi-hole means all lookups have to timeout before trying the second it could be just as painful. Not sure if there is a way to configure a...
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    Diversion Diversion not working

    At the risk of asking the obvious, what does the PC show for its DNS settings? My wifes laptop has a similar issue but that is down to the fact her company runs a VPN which force routes all traffic over it whether you like it or not. Assume you're not running any VPN clients on the PC?
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    Would there be any interest if I added integrations to my addons, e.g. healthcheck.io, conditional notifications (e.g. email, Discord webhook)?

    It might be more my lack of familiarity with some of the scripts but things that support control/visibility via Home Assistant would definitely be of interest. Unless you have a burning desire to write a bunch of Python custom components though, a lot of that can probably be achieved via the...
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