Linux router questions and advice

[cTurtle98]

my router died and im using a shitty 2006 airport from the thrift store in the mean time but it keeps locking up and i have to unplug it and plug it back in (multiple times a day)

as far as I can tell dhcp is whats locking up

anyway

 

I want to use linux to do a router instead of buying a router but I dont want to use pfsense because of its shitty wireless support.

 

I think im going to put debian on it.

 

I want to buy this barebones pc and put the max ram in it.

I have chosen it because it is the cheepest barebones i can find that has dual nic's and wireless and doesent need too much else to get running

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16883218075

 

I want to get that and get ram from the electronics thrift store called grey bears in my area.

http://www.greybears.org/thrift-store/computer-store/

 

so my software setup would need to be...

eth0 WAN

eth1 LAN (to switch)

WL0 LAN (broadcast network for wireless devices to join)

 

 

how hard would this be to do?

does anyone have any advice?

does that boneless have any fatal flaws i should know about?

 

im probably going to use it as a database and MQTT/node-red server as well if that is possible ontop of its routing

[unijab]

Are you familiar with iptables?

[cTurtle98]

28 minutes ago, unijab said:

Are you familiar with iptables?

yeah its the firewall program installed by default on debian