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Looking for a linux dev to implement PiHole on a plug and play device.

Hey Everyone,

The idea that I have is simple in itself but the engineering part is what I need some helpful brainstorming with. So I want to take the PiHole software and build an Ethernet bridge device to plug in between your PC and router or modem to router. I want it to be a plug and play process and I'm looking for tech expert! I'm an electrical engineer myself and I'm stuck on a few things. Let me know if you're interested.

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    So you're basically just looking for someone to install Pi-Hole for you on a Raspberry Pi like device, so you can just plug and... play!? This doesn't seem like a joint venture where both gain something. ☹️

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      It would be a product that we sell jointly. I can figure out how to install Pi-Hole for myself on a raspberry pi. I don't know how to bridge two eth ports through the raspi.

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    pihole is a dns rabbit hole, not a router

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      Correct but the raspi can be used as a router.

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        true, and I think you can get router software already for that purpose. ofcourse you can't install pihole then. so looks like 2 separate rpi setup to me. besides using a cheap itx board with 2 network cards and installing pfSense will be more practical than rpi. fw can be cpu hungry when huge traffic and routing is involved.

        I personally would never use pi as router. have always either used cheap old hw or made it as vm machine in esxi

        I did use pihole on pi. And later just spun up a docker container on my unRAID NAS

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          But the average person doesn't or can't even do any router software changes. This would be as lightweight as possible to run pihole or something similar to psychically go between your Ethernet cord (so PoE) from PC to modem/router. Plug it in and it starts filtering , then do some simple setting changes from device i.p

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            I get that. You're missing the big picture here.

            You can not just plug piHole rPi in your network and expect it to filter traffic. You need to set lan DNS to piHole on your router. Not everyone knows how to do that.

            On the other hand you can not just plug in a router in your home network with pi hole DNS preconfigured and expect it to magically work. First of all you would have 2 routers in your network. One from your internet provider and your pi. How do you know to configure them properly for every user?

            So IMHO if you know how to set it up you don't need your solution. If you don't you won't know how to setup your solution either. There are manual steps in either case.

            The bes you can do is prepare custom images for rpi for each user. I was building a SaaS for that😂

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              Well that answers that haha, thanks for discussing this with me

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