Asus RT-AX58U v2 Merlin: Route all traffic to Pi-hole (running directly on router itself)

[hamensman]

Wanted to run Pi-hole directly on the Asus RT-AX58U v2 running Merlin so I don't have to hook up a Raspberry Pi to it. I found this which does exactly what I want - install Pi-hole as an Entware package directly onto the router.

The readme shows how to add the repo. And the wiki shows how to have Pi-hole set up and web UI accessible.

I'm not sure how to route all the router's traffic to pi-hole in this case (since pi-hole is not running on a separate Pi), and was pointed to SNBForums by the owner of the repo.

I'm a newb to both Asuswrt generally and Pi-hole.

 

[ColinTaylor]

You haven't followed the instructions in the wiki.

I've done that section. In my case, changed 192.168.1.0/24 to 192.168.1.160 and lan to eth0.

Why?

The wiki says:

Change 192.168.1.0/24 to match your LAN network and lan to match your LAN domain name.

For DNS director see the Merlin wiki:

DNS Director

Third party firmware for Asus routers (newer codebase) - RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng

github.com