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    Guiderails - an auxiliary whitelist only Merlin add-on

    The entware check is simple but the rest starts snowballing. IMHO, a better option would be if Guiderails was simply another option on your Diversion 'b' (blocking) menu. The code for Guiderails is small and configuration is fully independent. I hope you consider it.
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    Guiderails - an auxiliary whitelist only Merlin add-on

    Good point. Do you have some reference code on how to perform that check? I can simply error out with a help text like "Please install Entware via amtm (see https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng/wiki/Entware)". I also think I shouldn't be overwriting the guiderails.conf during installation...
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    Diversion Diversion - the Router Ad-Blocker

    I don't agree with that. The default on the routers are broad category based so, for example, I couldn't disable Netflix without disabling Zoom (needed for online learning). Anyway, I went ahead and created Guiderails, which gives very tight whitelisting controls (like Safari with Screentime...
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    Guiderails - an auxiliary whitelist only Merlin add-on

    Guiderails is an add-on to Merlin's AsusWRT firmware. It adds a an auxiliary DNS service that blacklists everything and then selectively whitelists specific servers for a fully controlled and curated internet experience. The typical use case is to enable online education for young kids by...
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    Diversion Diversion - the Router Ad-Blocker

    Thanks @thelonelycoder . Would you take up a feature request to support that scenario ?
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    Diversion Diversion - the Router Ad-Blocker

    Yes, the current setup is PiHole 5.x based but it's a PITA with local lookups and guest wifi isolation. Diversion seems to use dnsmasq for blocking and I know dnsmasq allows wildcards in the dnsmasq.conf file like address=/.blacklisted.com/0.0.0.0 This would blacklist *.blacklisted.com but you...
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    Diversion Diversion - the Router Ad-Blocker

    I have a question on wildcard blacklisting + whitelisting for *alternate* blocking clients. How do I express the following to diversion? For alternate clients (i.e. not all clients) Blacklist: * (i.e. everything) Whitelist: *.school.com *.docs.google.com www.reading.com (about 30 entries...
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    Using a separate but local DHCP server for both main and guest WiFi

    @K-2SO : That doesn't kill the guest internet but only because YazFi configures DHCP on the guest networks. The guest network isn't really getting DHCP leases from the primary DHCP. @Jack Yaz : I see the idea. And since YazFi simply adds to the router's dnsmasq configuration (by adding to...
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    Using a separate but local DHCP server for both main and guest WiFi

    Ports are 67, 68 but I wouldn't know how to plug that in to get it working the way I want i.e. have guest devices reach the DHCP server (PiHole) on the main network.
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    Using a separate but local DHCP server for both main and guest WiFi

    Thanks @K-2SO ! I just tried that. It seems to be able to connect guest network clients (now living off 192.168.[2, 3, 4, 5, 6].x ranges) over to the 192.168.1.9 and 192.168.1.8 DNS PiHoles but no idea about configuring DHCP. @Jack Yaz : Your script mentions "Restrict guests to only contact...
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    Using a separate but local DHCP server for both main and guest WiFi

    Here is my network Main router @ 192.168.1.1 : Asuswrt-Merlin 384.17 on an RT-AC68U DNS1 on PiHole 5.x @ 192.168.1.9 : RaspberryPi 4 DNS2 on PiHole 5.x @ 192.168.1.8 : OrangePi Zero (fallback DNS) WiFi: 1x main network (2.4G + 5G) and two guest networks ("IoT" and "Visitors", on both 2.4G and...
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