Comment on Turn linux server into a router?

aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Toralv@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sorry I was probably not very clear on one part, I’m looking to run a router additionally to my already existing debian installation. OPNsense seems very nice, but that would require me switching to FreeBSD, which I’m not very keen on right now.

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  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can create a virtual machine, running within your debian install, to server as your router. It actually works very well.

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    • Toralv@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I forgot VM’s completely, that’s very true.

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  • bacon_pdp@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well all Linux systems can easily be turned into routers if they have 2 or more networking ports.

    All you have to do is enable routing, the firewall rules for routing internal traffic and restrictions on external traffic, and dhcp services to the internal network (assuming that you don’t have a dedicated dhcp server)

    Here is an example: github.com/dhenkes/router

    Basically any Linux router guide (for any Linux distribution) can be used with minimal translation as they are all going to be using the exact same software with virtually identical configurations.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What do you mean by router?

    A router is a layer 3 device that routes packets. What functionality are you wanting?

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