I need to replace a bunch of ancient Cisco stuff. Also looking at other brands like Dell, Juniper and Extreme

  • warmaster@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    What do you mean? I have a Unifi 24 poe switch at home and I feel like Ubiquiti could do whatever they wanted with it. If I had more time I would have chosen some device with OPNSense.

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      11 days ago

      UniFi doesn’t need a license, you just buy the switch and install the network app. Meraki will totally turn off your network if you ever stop paying for a license.

      You’re just renting their hardware until you stop paying for the license, then it’s an expensive paperweight.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOP
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      11 days ago

      I don’t believe you can use OPNSense on a switch. Switches are in layer 2 typically and have hardware that switches.

      Technically you can run OpenWRT on some switches but it is still experimental and it is very much not enterprise grade