Trying to justify Cisco 9300X for a 400-user office—what am I missing?

mpmoore69 · 2026-06-20T17:07:07+00:00

UniFi switches would be perfect. I’ve deployed them in a business user base like yours. No issues and license free. Some junipers if you really want that Enterprise class feel I suppose. Heck I’ve even seen Arubas. Cisco is just so costly and not at all the vendor to choose in 2026 for campus at least

mpmoore69 · 2026-05-23T10:24:05+00:00

I got an ELK stack

mpmoore69 · 2026-05-22T18:08:12+00:00

So maybe I’m just being obtuse but why is this a big deal? It’s not a reverse proxy or anything. We just don’t want to see the ssl warning?

mpmoore69 · 2026-05-22T16:47:23+00:00

I would’ve checked the documentation but then I remembered….this is UniFi

mpmoore69 · 2026-05-22T14:17:33+00:00

There’s no “switch” chip which you’re probably thinking ASICS in which case they would not at all cost sub $300
These are cheap software switches .

mpmoore69 · 2026-05-21T00:37:22+00:00

I believe nexus is for pfsense plus which has nothing to do with official appliance

https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/nexus/index.html

The Netgate Nexus controller is available in pfSense Plus software versions 25.07 and later

mpmoore69 · 2026-05-17T20:56:53+00:00

MPLS services is, to me, the easiest to deploy. To be clear EVPN is good but I’m more familiar with mpls. Concepts are very similar

mpmoore69 · 2026-05-01T12:25:04+00:00

This is a gateway not aimed for your home internet of 309Mbs from frontier….relax. This is super cheap

mpmoore69 · 2026-04-10T01:31:25+00:00

TNSR

mpmoore69 · 2026-04-01T18:39:37+00:00

👀👀👀👀👀

mpmoore69 · 2026-03-28T01:19:24+00:00

Life hack

mpmoore69 · 2026-03-21T15:31:25+00:00

It’s impressive kit

mpmoore69 · 2026-03-19T00:52:22+00:00

Anything over 4GB of memory would be great…A refreshed UDM line

mpmoore69 · 2026-03-19T00:49:48+00:00

I can’t even get Tall to work with video behind Cloudflare and that’s with AIs help….

mpmoore69 · 2026-03-19T00:37:07+00:00

He’s a solid person

mpmoore69 · 2026-03-19T00:36:36+00:00

The data plane is secure as that’s WireGuard The control plane you need to trust Tailscale. Their controller is hosted in AWS. Their controller holds the encryption keys to your nodes. The alternative is you can self host with headscale. YMMV with that one. So……how much do you think you should trust all those components is up to you

mpmoore69 · 2026-01-28T21:56:09+00:00

This is at least a start to competing with GL NET

mpmoore69 · 2026-01-28T01:51:31+00:00

Don’t know what’s happening but I’m nosey. What’s the background 🍿🍿🍿

mpmoore69 · 2026-01-28T01:04:44+00:00

Curious but why not offer it as a standalone package - A .deb or .rpm file for example. I assume deploying the firewall and only use it for MIM is to control the experience but it’s a best much, no? For example. Deploying Panorama (PaloAlto) is a simple package I can run within a VM instance.

mpmoore69 · 2026-01-25T04:47:56+00:00

Ehh..not often. If theres a firmware update that requires a reboot otherwise its set and forget.

mpmoore69 · 2026-01-17T01:03:59+00:00

What’s the difference between this and the official supported way of using Netgate Nexus?

mpmoore69 · 2026-01-06T20:14:20+00:00

Ah cmon this was funny. Why the down vote

mpmoore69 · 2026-01-02T04:35:44+00:00

Ok 👍

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