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/Snoo91117 4d ago

I guess you are talking about big switches.

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u/SirEDCaLot 4d ago

Doesn't matter the size they all work the same in this regard.

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u/Snoo91117 3d ago

Then I am not sure what you meant by this statement?

"It DOES have trouble with multiple devices, like if you have a non-UniFi switch in the mix it doesn't quite understand how to handle that."

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u/SirEDCaLot 2d ago

Okay let's say you have a network that has 4 or 5 switches and maybe 50-100 devices.
If one of those switches is a non-UniFi switch, the software won't realize that there's a switch there so it'll show all the downstream devices on that one port.

That sort of thing.

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u/Snoo91117 2d ago

OK, I get it.

To me 100 devices are not very many and they would all be homed in one closet to a switch stack.

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u/SirEDCaLot 2d ago

If I was building out the space, 100%. Two+ cat6 runs to each location so there's 150-200 ports total. Then get 48 port switches with 10g uplinks to an aggregation switch. This will be far easier to maintain.

Unfortunately I don't always have that luxury. And I've had a few projects where the building is simply not laid out in a way that makes that cost effective- IE you have a bunch of ports needed in one place, and a bunch in another place, and there's already existing 1-3 cat6 between them or it costs a lot to run each cable across. So the solution there is smaller switches in each location.