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Yeah, I love the older Ubiquiti stuff (Edgerouter) and the Unifi access points, but all their new routers (like the UNMS ones) seem to require cloud hook-in whi
by stephen_g 5y ago
Yeah, I love the older Ubiquiti stuff (Edgerouter) and the Unifi access points, but all their new routers (like the UNMS ones) seem to require cloud hook-in which I really don't want.
When the EdgeRouter-4 I have dies, I suspect I'm going to need to find a new hardware brand, this time preferably running OpenWRT. Potentially it could get to the point where I'll have to look for an ARM based server with low enough power usage and a few independent network interfaces and just run pfSense or VyOS or something...
- avh02 5y agoHaven't done it myself yet but did pick up an rpi cm4 based board to do this: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/two-tiny-dual-gigabit-raspberry-pi-cm4-routers https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/two-tiny-dual-gigabit...
- washadjeffmad 5y agoThey still sell the ER series, but Microtik sounds like what you want. However, it's likely that your ER-4 will far outlast the majority of devices you can find running OpenWRT. They're very well built units.
- stephen_g 5y agoYeah, I’ve used Microtik gear, and I never liked their software. I hear the performance has improved a lot though (that was a big selling point of the Ubiquiti gear when I got into it with their hardware acceleration). I expect I will eventually move to embedded server hardware (even maybe Xeon-D) on a machine running vSphere or something with a router VM and other VMs for stuff I want to run. Just have a few separate NICs and pair it with a separate managed switch (which I already have anyway).