Comments by "looseycanon" (@looseycanon) on "Managed VS Unmanaged Switches and Support For InterVLAN Routing / Layer Three Switch Routing" video.

  1. Man, that IRL is so damn true! Look at my network, My ER-X is my primary gateway, At first, I thought, that I would go from it to a wireless bridge to get internet in to our garage directly... Well, nope. Dad wouldn't let me run enough cables to the kitchen, which has direct line of sight and is the only such place, plus I needed to add second AP in the kitchen to cover surrounding rooms. Because of this, I had to go with UAP-AC-Pro for coverage (I know, hillarious overkill for five wireless stations at a time max), because it has passthrough port. So now, when I want to go on the Internet from the garage, say for some video tutorial, I have to go ER-X > Zyxel 1900-24E > PoE injector > UAP-AC-Pro > Zyxel 1200-5 > PoE injector > Ubiquiti NanoM5 > Ubiquiti NanoLocoM2 > Ubiquiti NanoLocoM2 > PoE injector > Zyxel 1200-5 > PoE injector > UAP-AC-Lite. That's three switches and five different APs in a row.
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  2. Yep, get yourself a UniFi controller (either in the cloud, a cloudkey or setup on one of your devices), and any Ubiquiti UniFi AP. You'll be able to direct an AP to pair SSIDs with VLANs under "Wireless Networks" settings.
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  3.  @michaeljaques77  Well, it depands. If you want to run captive portal for guests, then controller is required 24/7, otherwise, no. The controller is not just an interface, but APs, switches and gateways from UniFi family can work without it, once they're set up. I personaly believe that on premisis controller is the best choice, but, controller software has trouble with power outages, so unless you're willing to buy Gen2 cloud key, or go cloud, you would need UPS to make sure, that nothing bad happens to the controller, while it is running. The biggest benefit of controller running 24/7 is that you see your network performance and thus can better handle your network better. Another benefit lies in automated updates of your APs. But, you can run it only when configuring new equipment and then turning it off too, in which case, Raspberry Pi would be the best choice for platform for the controller.
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  4.  @michaeljaques77  In that case, make sure you'll open/forward ports 80 and 8443 to that VM. Port 80 is to access the GUI, port 8443 is for managed devices
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  5.  @michaeljaques77  on a router, yes, however, you still need to make sure that VMs firewall doesn't block it too. I don't know much about virtualisation, but if there is some kind of firewall involved on VM or as part of software running the virtual enviroment, you will need to make sure these ports are open. Again, I'm speaking about firewalls on the actual machine this is supposed to run on. edit: If you'll need to cross networks reaching the controller, use DHCP option 43
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  6.  @michaeljaques77  Unless there are firewalls on the servers them selves. Anyway, if it doesn't work, you'll know where to look.
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  7.  @owowowdhxbxgakwlcybwxsimcwx  Man, that is not likely to work, if his device is a newer one. EU regulatory body and US FCC demanded lock to be put in place a few years ago, so that firmware can only be of device manufacturers make. This was done to prevent people using illegal frequencies (here in Europe ch 14, for instance). Therefore, he might not be able to flash is Asus.
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