Hello selfhosted.
My router just burnt up and instead of buying a new one, I’m thinking of turning my own built NAS/home server into a router. Is this possible?
The server in question is a normal computer running debian, where I have a few disks in RAID and host some web services. The motherboard only has one RJ45 port, so my guess is that I have to at least get a network card that supports 2 ports. I’m no stranger to linux but physical networking is not my home field, though I’m very interested.
If someone could point me in the right direction, I would be more than happy.
Only issue I’ve had with this setup is if you’re running in a cluster and you have to restart the cluster then you run into a deadlock. The cluster won’t start VMs without a quorum and it can’t form a quorum without the OPNSense VM up. So you have to manually intervene.