My wife loves our pihole setup so much I was forced to setup VPN access to the home network so she could block ads while traveling. Now our oldest daughter wants me to setup pihole for her house.

Yep… couldn’t agree more. I has its uses but too many people are using it and disconnecting their brain. Going to meetings where people have used it to determine requirements, do analysis or even transform data and then don’t even review the results themselves before presenting and asking us to review them is rage-inducing. “What do you mean it has problems? Where? What’s wrong??” And there’s like 5 things I’ve spotted in 2 minutes and it’s clear they’ve not even reviewed it themselves.

This guy and his long-ass, poorly formatted AI-generated “documentation” no one asked for and then after numerous errors are pointed out… “Will you review the rest?” The audacity!! 😄

Additionally, is the other parenthetical information materially correct? If not, which points [1 thru to 7] are wrong?

This is one of the problems with relying on AI… it can produce an overwhelming amount of content with errors and inaccuracies throughout. If you don’t review and know the content yourself, you won’t know what it got wrong.

It’s genuinely rude to lazily use AI to produce such a large babble of details and then ask someone else to review it for errors when you haven’t reviewed it yourself. I know you didn’t mean it that way but that’s nonetheless the result. People are going to read your comment and be misled about this project all because they assume AI is accurate and you didn’t review its results.

Edit: Sheesh… I hadn’t even got to your shitty comments that followed. You use AI to make a low effort but highly verbose post and then get mad that the repo author won’t review it in detail for you when you can’t be arsed with reading the docs yourself.

I definitely don’t intend to run anything core over wifi… my home servers all have direct eth connections but also have WiFi hardware that came with them. The WiFi is really just a backup in case the switch they’re connected to dies. And since it turns out the eth and WiFi devices can share the same ip, having a resilient backup was easier than I expected.

In terms of size, the networks has about 70 devices and I’ve got 2 pi hole servers running dhcp & dns services, including unbound, all with ups’ and a generator backup so it’s about as resilient as I can make it.

Thanks for sharing your experience… so it really does work! I mean it certainly seems to be working fine and I keep thinking I’m overlooking something. I feel like I’m in a love triangle with 2 girls fully aware of the other and they’re fine with it… this feels like a disaster but everyone seems to be happy!

Thank you for the link… I didn’t know that was a thing. In the mean time though I can’t find a problem with what I’ve got… 2 connections with the same IP.

I simply wanted a fail-over but in the process got 2 interfaces with the same IP and I can’t find a problem with it 😄

What won’t work, because at the moment everything seems to be working fine and I’m pleasantly surprised.

In terms of why, all I really want is for the machine to have the same, consistent ip address. Since it’s one of my networks dns and dhcp servers, I want it always available with the same ip. It’s hard-wired but has wifi, so in theory if the eth connection or switch it’s attached to dies, the wifi connection can kick in and it can still serve the network if it still has the same ip address, otherwise the wifi connection is no benefit.

Since I didn’t know I could assign both connections the same ip address and still be functional, I originally setup a script that monitors network status and disables the wifi if eth is active and then re-enables the wifi if the eth connection drops. This works well on my two servers with one exception… my dvr scheduling/recording services don’t work properly when the wifi adapter is disabled. Not sure why but that’s how I stumbled on this setup with both active with the same ip and realized everything just seemed to work.¯\_(ツ)_/¯

That’s the thing about UDP packets… receipt isn’t acknowledged as part of the protocol. It’s send and forget. I’m not sure a UDP packet sent to my server would get lost but I’m not 100% certain there couldn’t be situations where the packet is received by the server on both interfaces, essentially duplicated. It’s been almost 30 years since I wrote programs that utilized UDP for communicating. I’m definitely a little rusty. 😄

Will UDP packets produce an error when sent or will they simply be received twice, potentially causing errors/issues?

You will need to make sure the IP you assign the adapter isn’t an IP the router will try to assign to another machine or device. The dhcp services don’t assign this IP address and it’s manually assigned in the adapter config so I guess the router doesn’t know or care.

I am kind of curious how traffic destined for this address doesn’t have issues though, like being received twice. Maybe I haven’t tested enough from a mix of devices on the network.

Thanks for the detailed explanation. Has this always been possible though? Was I just imagining that manually assigning to network adapters the same ip address wasn’t possible?

Thanks for the reply. They seem to both be active. I don’t have iftop but tcpdump shows traffic on both, though much less on the wifi connection.

ip route shows:

default via 192.168.1.1 dev enp1s0 proto dhcp metric 100 
default via 192.168.1.1 dev wlp2s0 proto dhcp metric 600 
169.254.0.0/16 dev enp1s0 scope link metric 1000 
192.168.1.0/24 dev enp1s0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.4 metric 100 
192.168.1.0/24 dev wlp2s0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.4 metric 600

I really didn’t think I’d be allowed to statically assign the same IP address to both interfaces, and surprisingly it seems to be working ok. I’m just wondering what I don’t know that’s going to bite me :)

Might as well add SSN too!

So you support adding a field for your SSN too? It’s just going to be stored in a database on your PC so why not??

There are lower COL places that a senior or principle engineer/architect can earn $200k+

That’s the genius of it

I think you meant perl.

Thank you. I think my biggest concern is that I can’t fix it when it breaks, simply due to lack of experience. I’ve fixed busted Windows partitions and boot issues, but never Linux because I’ve just never had an issue with the installs I have and don’t have nearly the same number of years under my belt with it.

As you said I think first order of business is a functional bootable USB which I can use to both backup and restore the partition, and I need to do a practice run restore to prove it works and that I know what I’m doing before I need it.