Comment on Turn linux server into a router?

• Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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• bacon_pdp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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