Comment by protocolture
7 months ago
>Lotta haters out there but this is just advanced as I want to get in my home lab
The problem with UBNT isnt that they aren't great for your homelab. They are.
The problem with UBNT is people think "Great for my homelab" is the same as "I can run important infrastructure on this"
The problem with UBNT/Mikrotik is that people bring homelab level skills to complex infrastructure projects and then make a shocked face when they get hacked.
They position themselves as enterprise-ready. See: Unifi Leaf, Spine. They are anything but.
My favourite ubnt story is that a customer purchased one of their radios and deployed it to site, only to find that it would just eat vlan tags. VLans go in, untagged traffic goes out. After proving the issue, they resolved it with beta firmware. For whatever reason, vlan tagging isnt part of their standard test plans during their development cycle. I got to witness this bug be reintroduced 3 more times over the years.