I recently built a router using NixOS. Here’s how I did it. I’m going to skip a lot of the middle learning stuff I did while I figured all of this out. And there is still a lot of stuff I need to learn. Like how to handle IPv6! Hardware My router/server is a custom built gaming PC from many years ago. It has an i7-6700k, 32GB of RAM, and a pair of 256GB SSD’s in btrfs raid0. It’s overkill for a router, but it’s what I had laying around. ...

I built this on Nix. And it was very easy. First though, Credit where it’s due, I borrowed from This with some updates. At the moment, the configuration for this site looks like this: { pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> { } }: with pkgs; mkShell { buildInputs = [ hugo go ]; } Which frankly, is excellent! (Also of note, I’ve set it up so that the text above will always be the current version that’s in use!) ...

First Post! Heck!