Home NAS build, 2017 Edition

Thu, 09 Feb 2017 20:04:14 +0000

Many years ago, before WiFi or even routers were common in homes, I was faced with the problem of how to connect multiple computers in my home to the internet when our cable provider only provided a single IP address. Being the late 1990s-early 2000s, this was a problem largely faced only by super-nerds like me, and the generally accepted solution was to build your own router, generally using a Linux box with two Ethernet ports, ipchains (or iptables, if you were bleeding-edge) to do NAT, DHCP and DNS. I had an old computer laying around so that’s what I did. This box served me well for many years, ultimately being replaced by a Linksys WRT54g.

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Home NAS build, 2017 Edition