Re: [NF] Hardware vs Software Router/Firewall Recommendations

Author: Ted Roche

Posted: 2016-12-21 at 16:27:47

On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 5:09 PM, Mike Copeland <mike@ggisoft.com> wrote:

>

> I've purchased and attempted to configure a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter, which gets

> rave reviews, is exceptionally low priced, but WOW what a pain to configure!

> But from what I can tell, the Ubiquiti product line is worth some effort and

> I do hope they'll improve their UI for the configuration. If anyone else has

> experience with a Ubiquiti router, I'd love to chat!

>

A couple of the local LUGs have had some discussions about Ubiquiti.

The hardware specs sound good, but there were some concerns about GPL

violations, and specifically, some changes Ubi made that introduced

security flaws and were not released as source code. This was a while

ago, so you might want to check for updates to these issues.

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