# Feedback for "Allow defining clients by their MAC address, host name and networking interface"

**URL:** <https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/feedback-for-allow-defining-clients-by-their-mac-address-host-name-and-networking-interface/32324>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** v5-0\
**Created:** [May 13, 2020, 8:24pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/feedback-for-allow-defining-clients-by-their-mac-address-host-name-and-networking-interface/32324 "2020-05-13T20:24:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![DL6ER](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/dl6er/32/281_2.png) [@DL6ER](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/DL6ER)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 7:44pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/feedback-for-allow-defining-clients-by-their-mac-address-host-name-and-networking-interface/32324/189 "2020-08-11T19:44:27Z")

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> [@Tntdruid](#):
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> does i work whit 5.2?

No, these are all experimental changes. None of these two features are in the released version. However, these features appear to be stable so testing them is possible without causing harm (probably).

> [@Coro](#):
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> As I know you by now, you probably have already done it

Well, actually, yes. I implemented a first attempt at what I described above already yesterday, however, I haven't really had any time for testing. I did the testing now and everything seems to work as expected. I will document this and we should discuss this in a new topic:

> [@Adding alias-clients to Pi-hole FTL](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/adding-super-clients-to-pi-hole-ftl/37084):
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> Many devices have multiple addresses (e.g., IPv4 and IPv6) and we've been asked often if they can be grouped together in the statistics. Well, grouping them has a number of drawbacks (discussed elsewhere), but I think I found a way how to achieve what everyone wants without having to rip apart everything inside FTL. Here, I introduce super clients. Super-clients are (in some way) ordinary clients but are only virtual. They appear everywhere on the dashboard just like the other clients, but they…

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