Most off-the-shelf home routers contain a DHCP
[https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Network_configuration#DHCP] (Dynamic Host
Control Protocol) server, to assign IP addresses on your network. Your ISP
likely has a DHCP
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 [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd-networkd]
and sysctl/kernel [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Sysctl] configuration.
PURPOSE
In 2015 I purchased an Intel NUC with dual Gigabit Ethernet ports
[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00SHYW6US/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1]
, with
PURPOSE
I have an old QNAP TS-559 Pro+ I purchased in 2010, with five 2T Samsung SATA
mechanical hard drives. I never really liked the QNAP OS (which is basically a
nonstandard Linux