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.
You can but I would strongly recommend that you set up a dedicated box. It doesn’t matter that much what OS it is running but it shouldn’t be the same device running other services.
As someone who has done their router as both a VM and a stand alone physical box, just do a stand alone box. It doesnt take much to run pfsense