Recent content by bibikalka

I have a swap file enabled too. So I guess the OS can swap out instead of having PiHole do it. I keep my SATA SSD on a cheap USB2 adapter, so max speed is only 30MB/s anyways.

Well, did you try it yourself yet? :) Mine is running too smooth to experiment - there is no way to go but down :D

The only fragile part is the installer so far. Otherwise the compiled binary just runs and runs :) I needed to block different domains for different devices, PiHole provides such granularity. That's all there is to it.

You seem to refer to Diversion vs PiHole? I think once you go with PiHole on Merlin, you'll never look back - it's just far more polished and lots more features :) Diversion was really great for its time, but given that routers became beefier there is no problem running the heavier PiHole!

You do have "pihole" user added, so that's the same as mine. Asus-Merlin AX branch is a lot newer than on my AC86u, it's a different major release. So there could be some Asus-Merlin version impact.

@ec As the "pihole" user, which they do in your output! So mine is the ancient AC branch. You are on AX. I wonder if there were some changes which removed the ability to see the interfaces.

Can you try to run the interface query manually and see what it says on the command line? Are your processes running as pihole ? admin@RT-AC86U-9988:/tmp/home/root# ps wT |grep pihole 4231 pihole 59776 S < pihole-FTL 6797 pihole 59776 S < {database} pihole-FTL 6798 pihole 59776 S <...

Same here, but it's such a rare need, that I don't mind at all. Btw, the Android app named "Pi-hole client" can pull stats really quick, no lag for this one.

It is really a job for a pro if one has time ... It's a limited number of changes, but in a few places. Better to keep the style consistent. Warning though - if installs are made easy, it'll totally displace Diversion :) ( @thelonelycoder ) Also, will need to ensure that the new PiHole...

Interfaces look good for me, see the screenshot

But the only reason people are running these devices is AiMesh! So it's a bit of chicken & egg ...

Another angle is that Asus widely sold the AiMesh feature which meant older routers could be used as AiMesh nodes. So when people were buying newer models, there was an implicit assumptions that the older models would still have enough support to be useful. But if Asus is updating AiMesh on the...

It's not obvious that Asus support for these AC routers was any less in 2025 compared to 2024 or 2023. So while they said "EOL" - apparently that did not really mean that.

Well, I wonder if there is a way to petition @RMerlin to do the minimum scope recompile with the latest Asus releases for these routers. The hardware is old, but not obsolete :)

@Jack-Sparr0w You truly are an unorthodox thinker, please don't lose your passion for tinkering with Unbound, and keep reporting back! For me, I'll stick the more boring established settings for now. I am a bit of the scientific method kind of guy ... ;)