Reviewing UniFi 7.4.156: OpenVPN Server, Big VLAN Port Management Changes, and Other New Features!

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• The VLAN changes are ok-ish but poor UX/UI design choices again. Mixing and matching 2 systems and also odd things happen with Flex Mini switches and Port profiles. Overall the gui does not really show what is going on when the conversion happens. Having "none" passing all networks is well dumb…but hey nothing surprises me with these $billion companies ability to do anything logical.

• I have Cisco, Zyxel, Netgear, and Mikrotik switches. I just got my first Unifi switch. OMG – figuring out how to setup VLANs in Unifi (I have the latest 7.4.162 Network app) was a lot more complicated than I thought. I was missing the simple Cisco command line interface…. What's confusing is the Unifi terminology is a bit different than what I'm used to, there's basically no Unifi documentation, and what's available online that's older than 3 months (forums and YouTube videos) are basically out of date…. The Traffic Restrictions Allow/Block user interface could have been made a lot more intuitive IMHO. This video helped, as well as unifi forum members answering my post. Now that I understand how to setup Unifi switch ports to be trunk or access ports (to use old Cisco terminology), it's really quite easy to do. But getting over that initial understanding of Unifi's user interface and terminology took a bit of investment in time (it's one of those things that should've taken 5 minutes if someone just told me how to do it to begin compared to doing a lot of online searches and hitting info that's out of date (i.e. that's older than the 3 months since Unifi updated the Network app).

  Anyway, all is good now. I'm glad to be replacing a Meraki switch with a Unifi switch. Merakis is one hard interface to deal with. Unifi is so much simpler (and now that I've played with it and gotten over the different terminology and odd interface, I can see that it should be fairly quick and straightforward to configure my Unifi ports.

  Anyway, looking forward to seeing a future VLAN video from you (I use a 3rd party router., which for me at least, seems to make it simpler to configure my Unifi switches).

• Seeing Ubiquiti reducing support for self-hosted Unify Networking application installations, and developing dependencies on Unify OS, is forcing me to consider alternative brands as a prospective new customer.

  Ubiquiti's poor firewall implementation and my requirement for only layer-2 switching and wireless access point management (no need for Protect, Access or Voice) puts me in the self-hosting scenario. If self-hosting is slowly being abandoned by Ubiquiti what other brands provide solid self-hosting for layer-2 and wifi management?

• When is the updated VLAN video coming?

• When I select traffic restrictions, block a couple of VLANS snd save, I go back into the port settings and its unticked and doesnt seem to save. Anybody else had that?

• @LAWRENCESYSTEMS Great video. Can pfsense be the firewall and unifi be the router (udm-se), switch, and AP? Wonder if there is a good way to mesh the strengths of both. Keep up the good work!

• I would like to help from you relate software unify (install on pc) so how many ap can control on software unify ?

• Thanks for the video =)

• I really hope they bring Trunk Profiles back. It was way easier and much more logical in my opinion.

• I need that t-shirt! Where did you get it?!

• This update broke my entire controller on my raspberry Pi. Luckily I had backups. Going to this version required a fresh install though and quite some tinkering on the OS.

• Dark mode is not that easy to see….

• Well….that's gonna suck. I look after a site with numerous different clients all on their own VLAN's with continual movements around and on / off site. That VLAN management is going to be a pain

• Note to self: don't watch Lawrence systems.

• I just upgraded my network controller to 7.4.156 yesterday (I use a 3rd party router) and I was not a fan of the new vlan management. I always liked seeing the 'ALL' tag beside my trunk ports on my switch, so I just went in and created an 'ALL' profile and added it to my trunk ports. Not at all necessary, but now it least looks a bit more familiar when I go into the port manager for my switch.

• Yeah the new VLAN settings are really dumb

• Fuck unifi…

  They don't have UVCG4DP in stock. You have to pay 2x-3x msrp on sites such as amazon etc.. .

  Mine got stuck in a bootloop…

  Come to find out you can re flash them …. If you're brave you can open it up – find another button that clearly says boot from USB….

  Soooo let me get this right….. They hide a functional repair ability…. Won't provide bins or images for reflash…. And don't have inventory on their web store… So if you buy from Amazon or similar… No warranty for you….

  Anyone willing to look at this…. You can boot from USB and repair your boot looped camera….

  Otherwise protect needs to be patched!! Bebcareful updating….

  I just bought this camera days ago and its a $550 brick…

  My older one lasted over a year before it bricked ….

  Unifi won't provide the bin/image…. "You can't boot from USB" says unifi… Clearly a lie for everyone to see … Just open up the camera… You will see another button – next to it says boot USB…. Hmmmmmmm

  Foss community please help a brother… My camera is open ready to be reflashed….

  Becareful updating protect if you own a g4 pro doorbell….

  Hey tom… I know you own a g4… Can I get the dump plzzzzzss

  Unifi is becoming a bunch of scumbags

• Agreed, I pulled down the update right off and the VLANs are super stupid in the new version.

• Been configuring switches on Cisco and MikroTik ROS, so when switched to Ubiquiti switches, always find their way of configuring vlan more restrictive and less versatile. The "harder" way of setting up vlans has always make more sense/logic to me.

• My home lab I'm running a UDMSE and beta firmware, and I actually really like the way the v lans done now. I actually always thought the old way of how ubiquity did vlans and subnetting was bad, and a pain in the ass. My first time playing with ubiquiti and vlan, it took me a minute to figure it out. The new way, was actually very intuitive for me. I set up a new client site and went into the VLANs and the sub netting import assignment really was nice. And I really like the new ethernet port profiles! So now I can sign a port profile for say protect and have a separated VLAN with all my firewall rules restricting internet access, etc, and with the port profile I can put the MAC addresses of all my cameras and so now I don't have to do Mac authentication on each port for each individual MAC address. And then for my network access control, 802.1X for my main subnet now can be assigned set up and configured via port profile and then I just assign it to those ports that I want to have on that subnet.

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