Having a caching Domain Name System (DNS) daemon is not a hard requirement for a home router, but most commercial routers have some caching DNS capabilities, as well as providing mappings between hostnames
Most off-the-shelf home routers contain a DHCP (Dynamic Host Control Protocol) server, to assign IP addresses on your network. Your ISP likely has a DHCP server that assigns your WAN IP address to
Configuring the firewall is of utmost importance in protecting your network! There are many options for setting up the firewall. The venerable iptables is now deprecated by the newer nftables framework. Both of
This is the second post in my Arch Linux-based Home Router series. This article covers my systemd-networkd and sysctl/kernel configuration. systemd-networkd configurationBecause systemd-networkd is included in systemd, I went with it instead
PURPOSEIn 2015 I purchased an Intel NUC with dual Gigabit Ethernet ports, with the intention of running Debian Linux on it and using it as my home router. That worked out great, but