Troubleshooting • Pi-Hole DHCP Setup?

Looking for some insight on my home network configuration. Here is my layout

Modem->router-main->router2 (in ap mode) ->pi hole (All direct ethernet connection with various other devices connected over wifi).

I have my pi-hole set up to be a DNS and DHCP server. On my main router I have the Pi-hole set as my DNS server. I want all my devices to register with my Pi-hole for DNS and to do that I believe I need them all to get their IPs from the pi-hole DHCP. I cannot manually point to my pi hole in the main router, only disable the routers dhcp. However, I cannot seem to figure out how to get the pi-hole to give out DHCP addresses. I think it is because the router in AP mode is not getting an IP and therefore blocking the Pi-hole traffic.

I have static IPs set in the main router for the AP and the pi-hole. From my understanding, even though dhcp is turned off on the router, it should still assign those static IPs but it does not appear to be doing so. In that case I may be mistaken.

Any advice on how to make this set up work?

Statistics: Posted by MangoTiger — Wed Feb 21, 2024 4:56 am

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