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Multi-interface networks are hard to serve with DHCP

Home and small-network administrators need DHCP on more than one interface, LAN, or VLAN, but AdGuard Home's reported single-interface limit does not fit setups such as routers with multiple LANs. Users also report WLAN/WAN setups behaving inconsistently across operating systems, while a Windows user is looking for a straightforward way to combine DHCP with internet sharing. The evidence supports a focused configuration problem, but does not show how widespread it is.

For home-network administrators running multi-interface routers. Mentioned from Sep 2021 to Nov 2024 on GitHub and Stack Exchange.

4 different people described this problem in 2 separate discussions.

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  1. Currently, we only allow users to select one interface on which AGH serves DHCP. That model doesn't quite work when you have e.g. a router that also has some machines connected to it over WAN
    ainar-g on GitHub (AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome)Sep 2021+71 upvotesAsked for a tool
  2. I was about to request this. I have a router erlite with WAN+2LAN, and each LAN needs a dhcp server
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