A few months ago, I moved back all my services from Hetzner to a home server. Hopefully that’s the beginning of a series of blog posts explaining my setup, including my cheap way to have an out of band access for the serial console and the power management.
First thing first, a server need Internet connectivity. FDN is providing the transit over a local fiber loop managed by Bouygues Telecom.
I had a hard time finding a proper configuration. At first I tried the ppp daemon provided by the base system, but the stability was poor. I had more success with the mpd5 port.