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woodman1980
Joining in
6 months ago

VM Hub 6 with Pi-Hole for Adblocker

Hi, As the title suggests I am trying to setup a Raspberry Pi running Pi-Hole to block ads across my network.  I need to set the a static ip address so it runs smoothly.  Can I do that on the Hub 6?...
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legacy1
Alessandro Volta
6 months ago

The hub does not give you DNS/DHCP control you need your own router with 1Gb ports and put hub in modem mode

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woodman1980
Joining in
6 months ago

Thanks legacy1 but the Hub 6 cannot be put into Modem mode.  I have been reading about it and some people are saying to ask VM for a IPv4 router.  Not sure what that will do.  I'm a newbie here.

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    newapollo
    Very Insightful Person
    6 months ago
    woodman1980 wrote:

    Thanks legacy1 but the Hub 6 cannot be put into Modem mode.  I have been reading about it and some people are saying to ask VM for a IPv4 router.  Not sure what that will do.  I'm a newbie here.

    The highlighted text seems to confirm that you are  in the ROI.  These forums are for domestic customers of Virgin Media in the UK and the forum team don't have access to VM ROI's systems.  VM UK also don't have access to IPv6 on their hubs, the latest of which is the hub 5 and hub5x.

    You therefore need to speak to https://www.virginmedia.ie/contact/  and ask them if they can switch you to IPv4.