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  • Dave@lemmy.nzOPtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldPihole on gateway device?
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    11 days ago

    Thanks, yeah I will consider the options. Would be nice to have it in one as the raspberry pi is aging (it’s an original model B) and the gateway should be plenty powerful enough to run it, plus it would rule out the pi-hole to router connection as a possible reason for the unstable network.



  • Dave@lemmy.nzOPtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldPihole on gateway device?
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    11 days ago

    Well I was hoping to spend the same amount and get one that does everything I wanted 😆. I’m happy with separating things if it make sense, but I have two power points and already have too many devices in that spot (fiber connection modem + ISP router + two raspberry pi’s (one for pi-hole, one for home assistant) + a switch + RF sensor for detecting doorbell + more I’m probably forgetting). Some of these are powered from USB ports on other ones. Being able to replace the ISP router with a gateway that’s also a switch that also handles the pi-hole would mean three of those devices become one, and it seems feasible!



  • Dave@lemmy.nzOPtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldPihole on gateway device?
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    12 days ago

    Thanks for all the info and the detailed response!

    But it sounds like you only need it to be a wired router, which is good.

    Correct, don’t need wifi.

    PoE ports as a requirement is what narrows your options considerably I think

    I’m happy with doing this through a separate switch, but I’m happier if I can have less things to plug in. It’s not a must have though.

    Mikrotik has a lot of routers with PoE out. Their newest model in the RB5009 series can do either passive or 802.3af/at PoE out. Many of their older routers have passive PoE only. Make sure you know what your cameras need.

    I don’t have cameras yet, but I’m considering some Reolink ones. Happy to take suggestions. Am I likely to find a lot of difference in the PoE type or are most things compatible with each other?



  • Dave@lemmy.nzOPtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldPihole on gateway device?
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    12 days ago

    One of the things I use pi-hole for is to set customer DNS entries so anyone on the network will be redirected directly to the self hosted services when the type in the appropriate domain name. So it’s not just about the filtering (which I also want), but also the (network wide) custom DNS entries.

    I’m also happy with simple. I’m not overly against keeping the pi-hole and gateway separate but was just wanting to know if combining them would be an option (which is sounds like it is, but not super easy).