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To turn Raspberry Pi into a Wi-Fi router capable of serving internet to multiple clients:

  1. What hardware do I need?
  2. What software components one shall create to run it?
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It is possible. However, the answer to "is it practical?" would depend on your definition of multiple.

You need to have a Wi-Fi USB card which has allows/provides AP mode. Once you have it attached then you can install and configure hostapd and I am certain that someone must have documented the configuration process online in detail. This may involve iptables modification/entries as well.

Feel free to comment in case of query/doubt. I have worked on a project (which was for traffic monitoring) in which my client had the setup done and I would send him the cross-compiled binaries. Therefore, I am certain that this can be done but again, the practicality of the solution would depend on many factors.

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