Dashboard - Top Clients lists - grouping/filtering of data

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Hi,

I noticed that the two lists for Top Clients in the dashboard seem to filter rows using the IP address of a device. Shouldn't that use MAC Address because IP address of a device may change for any reason and statistics might be skewed? Or even devices of the guests may go away and come back later and get different IP address.

Please correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks.

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No. DNS queries are received and processed from a client IP, not from the client MAC. You will see examples if you run the following command from the Pi terminal:

grep from /var/log/pihole.log | tail -n10

If you use Pi-hole as DHCP server, client IPs will be unlikely to change. The Pi-hole DHCP server is a deterministic server, and IP assignment takes into consideration the client MAC.

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@jfb Thanks for clarifying that!

TBH, internet surfing is so much better now with pihole!