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No update for the TP-Link Omada Controller yet (which uses log4j).

by mastax 5y ago

mastax 5y ago
Since I bought into the Omada system due to the HN hive-mind shifting against Ubiquiti, I'll take this opportunity to write about the experience. The system is obviously inspired by Ubiquiti. The hardware seems good, I quite like the wall-mount APs that have a 3-port ethernet switch on the bottom. Be warned that there is different hardware between the similarly-priced wall and ceiling APs - the wall-mount ones have supposedly inferior Mediatek chipsets. The software controller is okay. It has pretty basic features. It doesn't have a real-time per-client bandwidth utilization view, you have to refresh the tabular data screen to see what's using bandwidth. It runs fine without creating a TP-link account and you can control it on the same network with a phone app. You need to create a TP-link account to have the controller check for and download firmware updates. They do provide debs for the Linux controller software, but don't have a repository so you need to update with other means. The firmware that the router shipped with had a bug that caused attempted firmware updates to fail, and it would then become unresponsive to the controller. Couldn't even reboot it, had to go in-person and power cycle it. Did eventually get it to update by doing it right after rebooting. I tried to use WiFi rate control to push slow/low-signal 5GHz devices to the 2.4GHz bands, so the remaining devices could use the full data rate. This caused iPhones to regularly determine the WiFi wasn't working and disconnect. Overall: its' fine. The hardware is a great value. I'm not convinced that TP-Link's software support or security is going to be any better than Ubiquiti's.
- davidmurdoch 5y ago
  Have you tried enabling ipv6 on your WAN and then also on the main LAN (SLAAC, not passthrough)? Mine will work for a couple ours up to a day and then no network requests will work for a few minutes, even the hardware controller is unreachable for that time.
  - mastax 5y ago
    No, my ISP doesn't support ipv6.

No update for the TP-Link Omada Controller yet (which uses log4j).

by mastax 5y ago

No update for the TP-Link Omada Controller yet (which uses log4j).

Since I bought into the Omada system due to the HN hive-mind shifting against Ubiquiti, I'll take this opportunity to write about the experience. The system is obviously inspired by Ubiquiti. The hardware seems good, I quite like the wall-mount APs that have a 3-port ethernet switch on the bottom. Be warned that there is different hardware between the similarly-priced wall and ceiling APs - the wall-mount ones have supposedly inferior Mediatek chipsets. The software controller is okay. It has pretty basic features. It doesn't have a real-time per-client bandwidth utilization view, you have to refresh the tabular data screen to see what's using bandwidth. It runs fine without creating a TP-link account and you can control it on the same network with a phone app. You need to create a TP-link account to have the controller check for and download firmware updates. They do provide debs for the Linux controller software, but don't have a repository so you need to update with other means. The firmware that the router shipped with had a bug that caused attempted firmware updates to fail, and it would then become unresponsive to the controller. Couldn't even reboot it, had to go in-person and power cycle it. Did eventually get it to update by doing it right after rebooting. I tried to use WiFi rate control to push slow/low-signal 5GHz devices to the 2.4GHz bands, so the remaining devices could use the full data rate. This caused iPhones to regularly determine the WiFi wasn't working and disconnect. Overall: its' fine. The hardware is a great value. I'm not convinced that TP-Link's software support or security is going to be any better than Ubiquiti's.

davidmurdoch 5y ago
Have you tried enabling ipv6 on your WAN and then also on the main LAN (SLAAC, not passthrough)? Mine will work for a couple ours up to a day and then no network requests will work for a few minutes, even the hardware controller is unreachable for that time.
- mastax 5y ago
  No, my ISP doesn't support ipv6.