# possible to show all clients with router aggregating requests to pi-hole?

**URL:** <https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/possible-to-show-all-clients-with-router-aggregating-requests-to-pi-hole/35036>\
**Category:** Community Help\
**Created:** [June 30, 2020, 10:39am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/possible-to-show-all-clients-with-router-aggregating-requests-to-pi-hole/35036 "2020-06-30T10:39:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![George\_Christogianno](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/george_christogianno/32/16991_2.png) [@George\_Christogianno](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/George_Christogianno)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 10:39am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/possible-to-show-all-clients-with-router-aggregating-requests-to-pi-hole/35036/1 "2020-06-30T10:39:55Z")

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Only 2 clients are showing the router and the pi-hole box

I am wondering if it is possible with pi-hole v5 to show all clients that connect to it.  
The setup is as follows:

client -\> router(DHCP) -\> pi-hole(DNS)

I am looking for a way to keep the above flow.

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**Author:** ![yubiuser](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/yubiuser/32/12100_2.png) [@yubiuser](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/yubiuser)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 10:47am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/possible-to-show-all-clients-with-router-aggregating-requests-to-pi-hole/35036/2 "2020-06-30T10:47:22Z")

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If you want to keep the **DNS** flow like

client -\> router (DNS) -\> Pihole (DNS) than it is not possible, because for pihole it looks like all DNS queries coming from your router. You should still see all clients in "Network overview" (if on the same subnet) but with the notion that they are not using pihole (because DNS requests are not send directly to pihole).

Yyou could keep your router as DHCP Server **but** distribute Pihole's IP as DNS server for the clients.

Client -\> router (DHCP)  
client -\> pihole (DNS)

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**Author:** ![Kaelon](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/kaelon/32/21721_2.png) [@Kaelon](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/Kaelon)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2021, 7:58pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/possible-to-show-all-clients-with-router-aggregating-requests-to-pi-hole/35036/3 "2021-02-02T19:58:02Z")

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Sorry to necro and old thread here, but as a new Pi-hole user, I thought I'd ask: Is the best practice here to make Pi-hole the DHCP Server, and not the Router, in order to preserve individual client queries in reporting? Wouldn't that add further overhead to Pi-hole / the Pi ?

I'm using my router as DHCP server and just using Pi-hole as my DNS Server, as recommended in the standard install instructions, but like the OP, I'm only seeing my router as the primary client behind all queries (192.168.1.1).

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**Author:** ![jfb](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/jfb/32/4332_2.png) [@jfb](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/jfb)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2021, 8:09pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/possible-to-show-all-clients-with-router-aggregating-requests-to-pi-hole/35036/4 "2021-02-02T20:09:49Z")

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> [@Kaelon](#):
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> Is the best practice here to make Pi-hole the DHCP Server, and not the Router

The Pi-hole DHCP server is an option to show individual clients when the router will not. There is no "best practice" - use what best meets your needs.

> [@Kaelon](#):
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> Wouldn't that add further overhead to Pi-hole / the Pi ?

Yes, but by a trivial amount. DHCP transactions are done once per lease cycle, which generally is very infrequent.

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**Author:** ![yubiuser](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/yubiuser/32/12100_2.png) [@yubiuser](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/yubiuser)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 11:06am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/possible-to-show-all-clients-with-router-aggregating-requests-to-pi-hole/35036/5 "2021-06-23T11:06:37Z")

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