[GTALUG] Debian Linux as-a-router Guide

[James Knott]

On 2023-09-08 11:50, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> I've been using PCs as my gateway machine for perhaps 25 years. I've 
> been lazy and only changed when forced to (and sometimes slow at 
> that). I've always run some Red Hat distro (RHL, CentOS, Fedora). 

I had been using an HP compact desktop computer for years, initially 
with SuSE but later pfSense, but then it died.  I replaced it with a 
Qotom mini PC, which works well and takes a lot less power.

> I don't have multiple LANs or VLANs.  People with home-made routers
>    seem to like those things.

You might want a guest VLAN/SSID.  I have my firewall configured so that 
the only thing a guest can do on my network is ping the guest VLAN 
interface.  Beyond that, they can only access the Internet.  I even 
point them to Google's DNS server, instead of mine.