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WIFI / LAN intruder detector. Check the devices connected and alert you with unknown devices. It also warns of the disconnection of "always connected" devices
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Question: Is DHCP enabled on the PiHole strictly needed? #24

Closed irnutsmurt closed 3 years ago

irnutsmurt commented 3 years ago

My router (Unifi Dream Machine Base) has more advanced DHCP capabilities than what the PiHole offers that I take advantage of, I was just wondering if I can I run this without DHCP enabled? My PiHole is able to get the list of devices using it because I do forward DNS to it. Just wanted to check before going down that rabbit hole.

Niemiz commented 3 years ago

I've about same question, instead of me creating new I hope it's okay I add questions to this one.

I forgot follow this step at very first, but then I'm sure I did disable DHCP in my router and enabled DHCP in pi.hole as well renewed my computers IP.

pi.alert did work the first night I installed it, loaded in all my devices and was able notify when I disconnected an IP camera as well my phone.

Now days later I've noticed - it hasn't been logging anything in 'Events' ever since despite my devices like phone and now IP camera, and other items has been disconnected for some time and re-connected hours later.

I found out my DHCP on router were active when I now double checked, as well my DHCP on pi.hole wasn't. So now I have tried again, been restarting router, pi.hole as well computer and other devices. My computer has now got new IP and in pi.hole it doesn't show me the local IP addresses anymore in query (instead it shows it's name set in router with .lan at end, which it hasn't before). Well the thing is it still doesn't work for me as of now. Idk if it's the DHCP setup I had in beginning that caused it and if I'd need reinstall or something else?

pucherot commented 3 years ago

Mi router (Unifi Dream Machine Base) tiene capacidades DHCP más avanzadas que lo que ofrece pihole que aprovecho, me preguntaba si puedo ejecutar esto sin DHCP habilitado? Mi PiHole es capaz de obtener la lista de dispositivos que lo utilizan porque reenvío DNS a él. Sólo quería comprobarlo antes de bajar por ese agujero de conejo.

Of course, you can. Note to correctly configure pyalert.conf values:

PIHOLE_ACTIVE     = True
DHCP_ACTIVE       = False
pucherot commented 3 years ago

I've about same question, instead of me creating new I hope it's okay I add questions to this one.

I forgot follow this step at very first, but then I'm sure I did disable DHCP in my router and enabled DHCP in pi.hole as well renewed my computers IP.

pi.alert did work the first night I installed it, loaded in all my devices and was able notify when I disconnected an IP camera as well my phone.

Now days later I've noticed - it hasn't been logging anything in 'Events' ever since despite my devices like phone and now IP camera, and other items has been disconnected for some time and re-connected hours later.

I found out my DHCP on router were active when I now double checked, as well my DHCP on pi.hole wasn't. So now I have tried again, been restarting router, pi.hole as well computer and other devices. My computer has now got new IP and in pi.hole it doesn't show me the local IP addresses anymore in query (instead it shows it's name set in router with .lan at end, which it hasn't before). Well the thing is it still doesn't work for me as of now. Idk if it's the DHCP setup I had in beginning that caused it and if I'd need reinstall or something else?

pucherot commented 3 years ago

Mi router (Unifi Dream Machine Base) tiene capacidades DHCP más avanzadas que lo que ofrece pihole que aprovecho, me preguntaba si puedo ejecutar esto sin DHCP habilitado? Mi PiHole es capaz de obtener la lista de dispositivos que lo utilizan porque reenvío DNS a él. Sólo quería comprobarlo antes de bajar por ese agujero de conejo.

Of course, you can. Note to correctly configure pyalert.conf values:

PIHOLE_ACTIVE     = True
DHCP_ACTIVE       = False

Is OK now?