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I want to make my rasperry pi able to 1 host a wifi hotspot, with an external usb 2ndary wifi chip, and 2 redirect all clients through a socks5 proxy.
I want to host a hotspot using the integrated wifi chip, take the internet traffic of everyone connected, redirect them to a socks 5 proxy, and then send it to the local internet using a usb wifi chip.
Firstly only certain USB devices work with the RPI.. Be sure to check that they will work before buying them.
Easiest method is to use the snap wifi-ap package it will allow you to setup a Wifi access point within minutes..
https://snapcraft.io/install/wifi-ap/raspbian
Then use wifi-ap.config and wifi-ap.status to configure your ESSID and pass-phrase etc.
DHCP can be used to redirect them to a proxy SOCK5 server.
If you want finer grain control (so I wanted to create a dual channel 2.4GHZ/5.0GHZ) for your access point then you will need to setup the different components independently which isn't too hard but for a simple setup wifi-ap is quick.
This is a good guide for setting up a Raspberry pi manually.. https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-wireless-access-point/
Probably not much use as you want todo custom features but there is a RaspAP install which turns your Raspberry PI into a fully featured access point.
