Serving two networks

Plex Media Server
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I certainly have never sparked this much response on here! I love it.

My end goal is to serve all videos internally on two LAN connections on the same server and nothing through a WAN interface.

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Still, the process discussed above has to happen.

    1. has to be able to reach 10. and vice-versa (at least the /32)
  2. When WAN1 link is down, you could:
    2.1 shutdown interface1 and restart Plex (but then how would you know if wan1 is up?)
    2.2 stop Plex, change PreferredNetworkInterface in Preferences.xml to interface2, start Plex. (I like this one better)
  3. Only change PreferredNetworkInterface back to interface1 when WAN2 is down
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I’d tackle this not with 2 different NIC’s in the server. Instead, I’d configure the router differently.

The router of the second LAN (the one which doesn’t have the server) just needs a special network route set up to deliver the packets which are addressed to the server’s private IP – instead of sending them to the default gateway with NAT applied.

Usually corporate grade routers can do that.
But of course also alternative firmwares for home routers can enable you to do this. (Tomato, Open WRT, dd-wrt etc.)

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axemanuk666, The DrayTek Vigort 2927 solved all of my problems. Thanks!!!

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Awesome! Great to know, and glad you’ve got the results you were looking for :smiley: