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How to Make a CentOS 7 Router

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Shahriar Shovon
Apr 17, 2019

CentOS 7 has firewalld installed as a default firewall program. But firewalld can be used to configure CentOS 7 as a router as well. To make a CentOS 7 router, all you have to do is to configure a DHCP server on CentOS 7 and then use firewalld to configure IP forwarding. That’s it. In this article, I am going to show you how to configure CentOS 7 as a router on your network.

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Shahriar Shovon

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