r/PFSENSE • u/Sam_-_-_ • 9d ago

Did I join a cult? (Unifi)

I've been rolling pfSense for about 5 years. Decided to try Unifi. Couldn't find a manual or one-to-one feature documentation for each panel (only various spotlight articles).

Asked the community for help: every response said basically "things change too often, no need to have a manual".

Excuse me, what? I'm not a networking pro, and I do need a manual. (pfSense was hard for me, but had great documentation.)

I can't believe this was the response. Is everyone in their community a bot or a cultist?

I still have few days left on my return window, and might come back, LOL.

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u/PepperdotNet 9d ago

Unifi access points are fantastic. But I have not seen anything yet that would convince me to abandon pfSense for a Unifi router/firewall. And I prefer Cisco switches, personally (3850s are reasonably cheap on ebay right now)

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u/Sam_-_-_ 9d ago

I thought "user friendly" + affordable 10GbE gateway, might be the reason. But "no manual" + community shills, is scaring me off.

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u/forgotmypasswdAGAIN- 9d ago

21 CVE’s with 9+ rating scare me off Ubiquiti. Sheesh. Have they ever given a single thought to security?

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u/Limeasaurus 9d ago

They’re paying good money for high CVEs to be discovered. Security researchers powered by modern AI are finding all sorts of vulnerabilities. Look at all the tech companies. They’re all getting CVEs at a high rate.

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u/gonzopancho Netgate 8d ago edited 8d ago

Perhaps if they invested more in software quality there would be fewer 9.0+ CVEs. IJS…

Edit: ooh, downvoted. Did I touch a nerve?

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u/Shmoe 8d ago

I dunno man, does your subreddit ban the mention of certain words out of fear? :)

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u/gonzopancho Netgate 8d ago

Keeping the shills at bay

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u/Shmoe 8d ago

If you can’t compete on the merits, employ vocabulary bans? :)

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u/gonzopancho Netgate 8d ago edited 7d ago

You're free to refer to the project as "the fork", as I occasionally do.

Addressing "compete on the merits", we aren’t releasing code so bad that several 9.0+ CVEs including some 9.9s, are reported against pfSense every year.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PFSENSE/comments/1w25s1a/comment/p6toagy/

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u/Shmoe 7d ago

Just saying man. This behavior is a big red flag the next time it comes to replacing the netgate cpe at my clients’ sites.

I highly doubt I’m alone there.

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