The other catch is that L3 only works on the newer switches. I had to pick up a 10G switch and it is the US-16-XG. I don't believe it will work there. UI wise, and this may be controversial, it may be better to have one UI and just make that work the best. Having to maintain two UI flavors is costing tons of effort, as both need testing, and switching between both in both directions, needs testing. It is pretty rough doing that. The general positive however, is that to me it feels like Ubiquiti and the Unifi team have stepped up their game again. There was a feeling of 'what's going on' for quite some time (for me at least). Even though they are still dropping out tons of new stuff, and you basically can't get much equipment due to 'out of stock' or distributors not having anything (for over a year now), the software has been getting regular updates, plus missing features from before, appear to be getting added bit by bit. There is competition, and as I'm quite heavily invested in Unifi by now, I'm glad to see they keep working on improving the product's software. Also, thanks for the video :)
Can you explain the difference between choosing UDM-Pro or L3 Test Switch as a router for that WiFi network? What are the differences and the advantages and disadvantages? Wouldn't it be better to always select the main router?
Have you looked into the issue where UDM hijacks all DNS traffic? I built an internal and external dns server and first getting individual hosts to point to my dns is very difficult with UDM. Had to build home DHCP server so I could server dns address then I noticed in a tcp dump on the UDM that my request were finally going to my DNS however it was still returning dns answers even when my dns server was down. Lol so I captured on my edge firewall and say that UDM was still doing DNS hijacking.
I am building a test network for learning purpose and I am looking for my AD server to host a DHCP server and deliver IPs to a small group of devices. Once I have DHCP server configured and I setup a vLan and enable DHCP relay which address do I use? Is it the server IP address? Or the DHCP router IP address? Or something else? Any help would be appreciated.
Did you actually try this in production? The dhcp requests do not reach our server if it origins from a L3 network. (The DHCP server is located on a regular network on a UDM-Pro). The dhcp request that origin from a UDM-Pro network work as intended.
Just wanted to chime in on this too. Currently trying to implement a USW L3 deployment using a non-USG firewall. Got routing squared away, but when testing DHCP Relay i also saw the DHCP requests not making it from 1 layer 3 network to another layer 3 network on the same USW.
The other catch is that L3 only works on the newer switches. I had to pick up a 10G switch and it is the US-16-XG. I don't believe it will work there.
UI wise, and this may be controversial, it may be better to have one UI and just make that work the best. Having to maintain two UI flavors is costing tons of effort, as both need testing, and switching between both in both directions, needs testing. It is pretty rough doing that.
The general positive however, is that to me it feels like Ubiquiti and the Unifi team have stepped up their game again. There was a feeling of 'what's going on' for quite some time (for me at least). Even though they are still dropping out tons of new stuff, and you basically can't get much equipment due to 'out of stock' or distributors not having anything (for over a year now), the software has been getting regular updates, plus missing features from before, appear to be getting added bit by bit. There is competition, and as I'm quite heavily invested in Unifi by now, I'm glad to see they keep working on improving the product's software.
Also, thanks for the video :)
Can you explain the difference between choosing UDM-Pro or L3 Test Switch as a router for that WiFi network?
What are the differences and the advantages and disadvantages? Wouldn't it be better to always select the main router?
In the old UI, DHCP Relay is under Services [on the left]
You can find the DHCP relay under services
Do you have to have a USG to make DHCP relay work with the L3 switches? I have been trying for days to get DHCP relay to work on my network.
Have you looked into the issue where UDM hijacks all DNS traffic? I built an internal and external dns server and first getting individual hosts to point to my dns is very difficult with UDM. Had to build home DHCP server so I could server dns address then I noticed in a tcp dump on the UDM that my request were finally going to my DNS however it was still returning dns answers even when my dns server was down. Lol so I captured on my edge firewall and say that UDM was still doing DNS hijacking.
any chance you can do a video that shows migration to L3. I use a network with 10.x.x.x numbering and have 3 vlans currently.
What controller allowed 10 or more “WIFI “ networks
What does auto scale do?
Good video WIllie !
I am building a test network for learning purpose and I am looking for my AD server to host a DHCP server and deliver IPs to a small group of devices. Once I have DHCP server configured and I setup a vLan and enable DHCP relay which address do I use? Is it the server IP address? Or the DHCP router IP address? Or something else? Any help would be appreciated.
Which ever IP on the server that is bound to the DHCP server service.
+ you need to have static routing enabled (between devices) if you are planning on having DHCP Relay (aka) IP Helper
Did you actually try this in production?
The dhcp requests do not reach our server if it origins from a L3 network. (The DHCP server is located on a regular network on a UDM-Pro).
The dhcp request that origin from a UDM-Pro network work as intended.
Also, i have verified that the switch is able to contact the DHCP server via ping from ssh.
same problem
Just wanted to chime in on this too. Currently trying to implement a USW L3 deployment using a non-USG firewall. Got routing squared away, but when testing DHCP Relay i also saw the DHCP requests not making it from 1 layer 3 network to another layer 3 network on the same USW.
@@EzioFoccacia same here.
same here - you cannot use dhcp server (with reservations\or without) from controller - still totally useless ;( neeed to wait more years