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Comment by hendry | Hacker News Reader

Switched to Ubiquiti, I'm quite happy except for their lack of a sane MCP.

Ubiquiti unifi has struggled to integrate routing as reliably and as well as the wireless and switching piece. Mikrotik router and unifi everything else has kind of been my go-to for at least 10 or 12y now.

I can't speak for the more "entreprise-y" unifi stuff but the routing on the ubiquiti gear i've used is actually just FRR and if you SSH in you can do a whole lot more than is surfaced through the UI - for example, I have VXLAN running on my UDR7 right now.

It's not something I've tried but I imagine you could actually expose FRR directly and configure through that

For a long time if you made any changes through the web UI it would overwrite the config. Then you could make changes and it would save. Then they removed it. Then they added it back but it didn't always work. Not sure the current state.

I have like a ~15y history of working with their stuff.

What's the state of FOSS licensing compliance? Have they repented?

Mikrotik's FOSS story is as bad.

Do expand

They don't release / host source code unless formally asked

How is the ipv6 situation these days? I left Ubiquiti 2 years ago because I needed to be able to configure the /56 I got from my isp. The unifi controller was pathetic in what it could do.

I'm new to Ubiquiti routers, but I had no problem dividing the /60 I got from my ISP and assign /64s to VLANs.

You might be interested in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZpJvpm1Ris (title: Does UniFi FINALLY support IPv6 Properly? State of IPv6 with Unifi Network v9). The video is about a year old, but from the looks it's not terribly outdated.

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