[GTALUG] Debian Linux as-a-router Guide

[Mark Prosser]

Reviewing your original request (sorry, I lost it due to spam filtering 
in Thunderbird) ... I think this guide might get you in the direction 
you want:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/04/the-ars-guide-to-building-a-linux-router-from-scratch/

The guide is quite old (last updated ~2018) but still should give you 
the ideas needed to get your Debian install in the right direction.

I still think VyOS is a good method, since you can access Debian any 
time you want, but this is more along what you asked.

On 2023-09-07 10:20, Giles Orr via talk wrote:
> As per my previous post, I just purchased a mini-PC which I intend to
> turn into a router.  Is anyone aware of a guide for turning a Debian
> PC into a _home_ router?  I'd like to be running probably DNSmasq,
> using a blocklist, stuff like that.  I've found webpages that tell me
> how to turn on network forwarding, or maybe configure DNSmasq, but not
> the whole process.
>
> Please don't suggest pfsense: I'm well aware of it, and it may well be
> better.  But I'm very adept at managing Debian, and initially at least
> I intend to try to set this up.  If it turns out to be direly
> difficult, pfsense may happen later.
>
> Thanks.
>
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