I’ve been using PFSense for years, and it’s been pretty great, but I also have some friends who are homelabbers that like their Unifi setups.

What do you guys prefer, and why?

  • AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social
    61·
    3 months ago

    Ubiquiti has had outages in the past that meant you couldn’t manage the equipment right in front of you.

    Even discounting the potential security implications of that kind of management, the rage I would feel in that situation is enough that I while my AP is nice, works great, I will never use any of their gateways.

    I’m using a 2.5g protectli with OPNSense now, and it’s easy to manage, and all local.

    • root@lemmy.worldOP
      41·
      3 months ago

      Oh interesting. So you can’t manage Ubiquiti devices without an Internet connection? TIL

      • chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net
        7·
        3 months ago

        You can manage them as long as you have access to your controller. If you’re using the controller hosted in their cloud, then you’re beholden to their outages. Some gateways cannot use your own controller, so be mindful when selecting your gears.

        • root@lemmy.worldOP
          2·
          3 months ago

          Ah got it. I was looking at the UDM Pro. Is that a router and a controller? If so, I should be able to access locally I’d hope

          • psykon@lemmy.ml
            5·
            2 months ago

            I got a UDM SE. The controller runs on the device itself and can be used locally, without a Internet connection or Ubiquity account (i’ve only ever set up a local admin account on the controller).

            It works great for me. UDM + 4 switches and 2 AP. All unify, I like the interface. But I’m also only doing basic stuff.

            I’ve had a pfsense based setup in the past and liked it. Now that I got 10gb ftth, the UDM SE ticked all the boxes and I went with a full unify setup with the switch to 10gbit. Happy with it so far.

      • BlueTardis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        If you are concerned it’s pretty easy to setup your own controller.

        Only needs to be running for management. Make a local vm

      • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        You can manage them as long as you have access to your controller. Unifi outages are only an issue if you’re paying for their cloud based controller instead of running it locally.

    • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      That’s only if you’re using their cloud management BS.

      If you’re running it locally it doesn’t rely on any external systems.