Adding alias-clients to Pi-hole FTL

Thank you for tackling this! I will load it on one of my pi-holes to test layer tonight!

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I see new/mac_clients has been merged into development by now. Is this the time to make a PR for this feature? Can it be considered ready? I did a lot of tests by now and everything seems to work everywhere. Another awesome feature. When you release this, you should definitely not make it a 5.1.3 micro step but jump straight to v5.2

Yes

https://github.com/pi-hole/FTL/pull/880

We just updated this branch to the latest changes, fixes and improvements from the development branch. It would be very helpful if you could update your Pi-holes to the latest version and verify if everything still works as desired.

Thank you for your continued assistance in helping us make Pi-hole better for us all :slight_smile:

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Yes, it does. I see you pushed an update recently. Everything still works beautifully. I'm really looking forward to seeing this merged into Pi-hole. It increases usability quite a lot. I am finally able to see all the various MAC addresses (laptop Ethernet IPv4+6, Wi-Fi IPv4+6, mobile phone IPv4+6) under one entry per device. This is tremendously helpful.

Any ETA on this being merged to the development branch so it makes its way towards master? :slight_smile:

We are still looking for a better name than super-clients. Or maybe striving arguments for why it should be super. It is actually more a client-grouping, so maybe client-groups ?

The 'superclient' name is too close to 'superuser' for me. I don't have a suggestion for a replacement, but I'd like something that doesn't have the connotation that comes with something 'super' in linux.

Maybe something like client-units or multi-client?

IP group ?

Hmm, units seems strange to me. multi-client is already better, still looking for the convincing term that rules 'em all. Maybe something like aggregation-clients or something altogether different like device.

I'd see this as well too close to the group filtering (while it does not filter anything at all).

IP bundle ?

Bundles or BClients?

client-cluster?

Clusters feel more like a grouping of different clients, bundle is closer to what is being modeled but there still may be better phrasing.

client-heap?

Flip it around,

client bundle

It's still a single client, it has many identifiers though.

client id group
or
client id bundle

Meant that a Bundled Client is closer than a Client Bundle but that's getting deep in to semantics.

as in Client Bundle of IP's MAC's whatever :wink: