On 10/12/21 6:32 PM, Todd Millecam wrote: > For what you asked, the small router or firewall is SKU: USG, and that's > what I run in my house, but their enterprise offering is called the Dream > Machine or SKU: UDM/UDM-pro. The dream machine is an all-in-one offering: > provides switching, gateway/firewall, and network controller. The basic > USG provides DHCP, firewall, deep packet inspection, and can do port > aggregation or redundant connections if you so desire, but it does not host > the controller software. You technically could do all the stuff you want > in the controller software in terms of vpn and dhcp configs and use > whatever DHCP/DNS/gateway your heart desires, but the USG or UDM will be > appropriate for an office setup.
Will the Dream Machine act like the cloudkey thing then to configure and manage all the ubiquiti switches and APs? Kind of sounds ideal for my needs. This is the kind of thing that's really hard to discern from their web site. > All their devices are just running a variant of busybox. Their configs > (/etc) get flashed into memory from the controller, and the USG can update > its configuration in place without any connectivity loss. All their > devices run just fine without the controller software running on the > network, it's only used for configuration changes and setup and is a > run-anywhere portable java application. > > I think they only offer 8, 16, 24 and 48 port switches. I have the 24 port > and 8 port in my house and it runs everything at full gig, plus includes a > fiber channel slot that will take up to a 20gbps adapter (which is how I > connect the two switches). My 8 port switch runs pretty hot for no > apparent reason (average 68C), so you may want to add in some circulation > or put it around flame-resistant materials A 24 port switch will probably work great for me. Do you know if the WAPs when managed together can do something like a single SSID across overlapping devices, and transparently hand off clients, or is this something that only a high-end cisco system could do? thanks so much! Very helpful. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
