Hello selfhosted.

My router just burnt up and instead of buying a new one, I’m thinking of turning my own built NAS/home server into a router. Is this possible?

The server in question is a normal computer running debian, where I have a few disks in RAID and host some web services. The motherboard only has one RJ45 port, so my guess is that I have to at least get a network card that supports 2 ports. I’m no stranger to linux but physical networking is not my home field, though I’m very interested.

If someone could point me in the right direction, I would be more than happy.

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    10 days ago

    Personally, I’ve always been a big fan of running the firewall/router/DNS separate of everything else. It’s harder to accidentally make a security blunder and doing regular system maintenance on your hosting server won’t knock out internet to the rest of the house.