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What Router can you recommend?
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this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2024
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I second everything said here.
UniFi is a good starting place, and pfsense is good if you really want to dig in.
On one hand I love unify on the other I wish i never went this route. They do make it very simple to manage a whole suite of devices. But updates sometimes feel "Alpha/beta" some more advanced stuff requires editing jsons in the devices them self. Also recently the battery in my cloud key gen 2 has blown and their is no way to replace it without replacing the whole cloudkey. Thing lasted like 2 years. which is ridiculous. Personally I have started to look in to Mikrotik which is a load more advanced and has a higher learning curve. but if I am forced to edit jsons and use scripts to do some more advanced things i might as well.
Sorry for the slight rant... just be aware what you can get your self in to.
Good points -- I've never ran into any issues with UniFi personally.
At the time I was self-hosting the UniFi Controller on my Proxmox server for a switch and an AP. So i suppose your mileage may vary with UniFi.
As far as routers go, I've been running a pfsense for a while and its been great. There is definitely a bit of a learning curve and it's not something that I'd recommend to someone who has little networking knowledge. Once you understand how to work with it, there is very little you can't do.
Mikrotik has pop-ed up on my radar recently too, might have to give them a look.
Edit: Phrasing.
All ill say is ROS script is a huge PITA.
So, making a script that takes an object of vlan/port assignments, and running the required commands to ensure the config of the mikrotik matches the declared vlan/port assignments.
The besy way ive seen to build/manage them is to use a compile step to go from some sane declarative config in order to build the actual ROS script to make the changes.
I just havent got round to making that a thing.
I hope they are working on a native python API, so i can script in a sane language, and run it directly on the mikrotik.
Config files are easy to import/export/edit/read, tho.
It does mean you have to reset to default when you update a config file (or configure the device live, then export the config)