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What is the difference between a router with an internal switch and a router without?

I am trying to understand why I would choose an ER-X (Internal switch, yes, all ports) vs an ER-4 (Internal switch, no) My understanding is both routers and switches can be used to connect multiple computers to a network (while routers can also…
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How to create a persistent cronjob on an Ubiquiti Edgerouter-X so its still there after a firmware update

We have tens of Ubiquiti Edgerouter-X's on active on customer locations. They among other things responsible for pinging an IP each minute. This is done by a cronjob (set with crontab -e) and works fine as long as the firmware is not updated. When…
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What are the benefits/trade-offs of enabling "Smart Queue Management" on ER-X?

I have an ER-X router from Ubiquiti. With COVID-19, both my girlfriend and I spend a lot of time on video calls. Would enabling "Smart Queue Management" (QoS) help with the quality of calls (we use a UniFi AC Pro AP for Wi-Fi and are well in…
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Home Networking Rj45 from switch to faceplate

I'm currently running network cable from a central switch to different areas of the house. One room has an RJ45 faceplate, every other cable is running between locations connected to rj45 connectors. I'm using this method to connect all my…
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Wireless site survey for AP placement

How do you do a wireless site survey to plan AP placement? My understanding is that you set up the APs, measure the signal strength multiple times in every room, spaced by test resolution, and then move the APs and repeat. Is there a better way to…
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Ubiquiti UniFi gives a specific client a link-local address (169.254..) but DHCP works for other clients

I have a weird problem. A single client in my home network keep getting a link-local address 169.254.., like…
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Can you bridge a basic mesh wifi (e.g. google wifi) system with a separate wireless bridge?

I currently have one house with a mesh Wi-Fi system (Google Wi-Fi). I am adding a back-house that is too far to reach with just mesh access points alone. I would like to maintain the Google Wi-Fi setup in the primary house as it. Ideally I would…
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ICMP DUP! packets (but only sometimes)

I have LibreNMS monitoring devices on my home network and it is logging duplicate ICMP packets on my network. Of the 30+ nodes being monitored, a few (3-4) exhibit this behavior. I can reproduce it occasionally using ping, but it doesn't happen 100%…
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Testing LAN network speed

I have my home wired with CAT 5e (which I understand can support gigabit ethernet) connected using the ubiquiti devices (1 UniFi Security Gateway 3P, 1 network switch 8-60W and 2 access points - UniFi AP-AC-In Wall). My synology NAS is connected on…
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UAP-AC-LITE very slow

I get internet over a Vodafone wireless router. Wired and wireless, a speed test (reproduced several times over the last month) shows 220 Mbps with a wireless connection. To have internet in the whole building, I decided to buy UAP-AC-LITE access…
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block a printer on a ubiquiti network from guest users

trying to block a printer on a ubiquiti network with 3 lans: One is Public or Guest(open) and two are p/w protected. Will a network rule work or should I use vlans? Having trouble with network rules
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Unifi UDM - IPSec VPN PING works but nothing else?

I'm trying to setup a remote syslog solution that is comprised of the following: Unifi UDM SE --> Site-to-site IPSec VPN Connection --> AWS VPC --> Private EC2 Instance (syslog collector - Internal IP: 10.0.2.113) I have been able to successfully…
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Cannot access Fastly CDN websites - Intermittent SSL handshake failure

I have a small home network, with DNS running through a VM with Pi-Hole. A couple of days ago, a hard drive problem took down the machine running the VM, so I temporarily set my router (an UDM SE) to use 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as its DNS servers. Ever…
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Route incoming packets on interface through another interface

I think I have a simple scenario that I cannot manage to make it work: I have a router (Edgerouter-X) whose eth0 is connected to my home LAN (192.168.0.0/24) which is connected to the internet. The same router has a switch0 interface (eth1, eth2,…
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Ubiquiti UDMP behind Pi-Hole / dnsmasq - Search Domains not working

I have a UDMP with multiple networks, each supplying their own search domain(s) via the Custom DHCP Option of 119 in the Dream Machine Pro. I can see on my machines - specifically my MacBook, that these Search Domains are being passed through to the…
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