I truly understand this sentiment, and if I ever find it troublesome to maintain, I will do just that, but right now I just want to use this as an excuse to fiddle around haha ;). I don’t run anything high-profile and my server uptime is still on par with the frequent power outages in my area

I see, very nice. That would reduce the cost quite a bit. Thank you

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

My router physically burnt up, up in flames. No idea why, tired of life I guess.

This was my first thought. I have some experience with iptables so I think this would be doable. Thank you

Ah I see, did not think of that. A network card with two ports would be enough right? One for the modem, and the other for clients, which ideally could be a switch, for more ports. That’s possible right?

Sorry I was probably not very clear on one part, I’m looking to run a router additionally to my already existing debian installation. OPNsense seems very nice, but that would require me switching to FreeBSD, which I’m not very keen on right now.