Altheran
Occasional Visitor
Hi,
A yeay ago Tim Higgins did a review of the Ubiquiti Edgemax Edge router lite.
At the the time, there was only the edgerouter Lite, wich is the small version of it. Now there is the Edgerouter PoE, Edgerouter and Edgerouter PRO.
At the time, on firmware 1.0.2, the device looked scary for begginners since you had to manually configure everything in the router.
But since then, there had many updates on the firmware, and a LOT of improvements. They are very active with the community and takes suggestions very seriously.
Now we are on Firmware 1.4.0 and here is what has been added.
Statup Wizard to :
Bind your WAN an LAN interfaces. (192.168.1.0/24 on the LAN ans DHCP on WAN)
Configure a starting firewall configuration.
Block Everything IN on the WAN interface.
Accept Established and related connections IN on the WAN interface
Block everything to the router on the WAN interface
Start your DHCP Service (192.168.1.20-192.168.1.240 on LAN)
Start your DNS Cache service on your LAN interface.
A wizart to add port forwardings :
By default port fowarding will also take care of opening ports in the firewall.
There is an option to activate NAT Reflection (Loopback) on your Port fowarding rules.
So all in all, it became a fairly simple device to get working on basics.
You get crazy performance and stability
You still have room to do very advanced configuration.
Lite : 1 million packets per second, 3 Interfaces. 99$
PoE : 1 million packets per second, 3 Interfaces : 3 ports switched with PoE on the 3rd interface. 175$
Edgerouter : 2 Millions packets per seconds, 8 interfaces 329$
Edgerouter Pro : 2 millions packets per second, 8 interfaces (of witch, 2 of them are combo RJ-45/SFP ports) 369$
A yeay ago Tim Higgins did a review of the Ubiquiti Edgemax Edge router lite.
At the the time, there was only the edgerouter Lite, wich is the small version of it. Now there is the Edgerouter PoE, Edgerouter and Edgerouter PRO.
At the time, on firmware 1.0.2, the device looked scary for begginners since you had to manually configure everything in the router.
But since then, there had many updates on the firmware, and a LOT of improvements. They are very active with the community and takes suggestions very seriously.
Now we are on Firmware 1.4.0 and here is what has been added.
Statup Wizard to :
Bind your WAN an LAN interfaces. (192.168.1.0/24 on the LAN ans DHCP on WAN)
Configure a starting firewall configuration.
Block Everything IN on the WAN interface.
Accept Established and related connections IN on the WAN interface
Block everything to the router on the WAN interface
Start your DHCP Service (192.168.1.20-192.168.1.240 on LAN)
Start your DNS Cache service on your LAN interface.
A wizart to add port forwardings :
By default port fowarding will also take care of opening ports in the firewall.
There is an option to activate NAT Reflection (Loopback) on your Port fowarding rules.
So all in all, it became a fairly simple device to get working on basics.
You get crazy performance and stability
You still have room to do very advanced configuration.
Lite : 1 million packets per second, 3 Interfaces. 99$
PoE : 1 million packets per second, 3 Interfaces : 3 ports switched with PoE on the 3rd interface. 175$
Edgerouter : 2 Millions packets per seconds, 8 interfaces 329$
Edgerouter Pro : 2 millions packets per second, 8 interfaces (of witch, 2 of them are combo RJ-45/SFP ports) 369$
