Commercial routers for consumers just happen to be just Linux boxes that on the inside use all the usual tools that are available on any other Linux system as well. The advantage is that installation and a big part of configuration has already been done for you be somebody else. If your are less experienced that might be a huge plus.I don't know where you live but in France we have a strong regulation about offering public access to the internet. It means you have to use tools that comply to the law requirements in order to do not have problems. That's one of the reason I advise you NOT to use a Pi for this. A pro router is designed and optimized for this and all of them has DHCP embedded.
However you could also use an OpenWRT image on your Pi. This would simplify things as well.
https://openwrt.org/toh/raspberry_pi_fo ... spberry_pi
Statistics: Posted by fchk — Sat Jan 03, 2026 4:37 pm