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How does one go about building a router from a NUC? Don't you need two NIC's for a router? (One for the modem, one to connect a switch for the LAN.) Or have enough people given up on wired networking that they just build routers where the entire LAN is on WiFi?

[jonathanlydall]

If you have a VLAN capable switch and appropriate network card with the right drivers, then you can have all the logical ports you could possibly want.

I have done this at my parents place with a cheap Intel Celeron based computer with a single network port, but 2 logical networks with vlanning. One is for their personal network and the other is for their guest suite they offer through Airbnb.

It’s only 20MB/s fibre, so not much cpu power needed. The no name computer cost less than $250, came with a 60gb SSD and I put pfsense on it.

[matwood]

You can get NUCs with dual NICs or just use one of the mini PCs out there. Ars has few articles building a home brew router with speed comparisons.