At the moment I still have an Omada network, but at times this suddenly stops, a lot of hassle to get it working again. The advantage was that I could literally see which hardware is on which port of my managed omada switch. I also have a smaller switch with 2.5 and 10 Gig, unfortunately unmanaged of course, this one because I want to keep it between a Qnap nas and my Mac mini 10G. I already had separate (tp-link omada) access points and the question is whether these can also be used outside Omada. And now the big question: what do you advise me for a router hardware?
depends what those are, doesn't it ?
what are your requirements, and internet speed ?
omada management equivalent would be OpenWISP. It sets autonomous access points that start on their own if powered off.
the port to device identification is lldp or cdp in standard setups.
Survey your devices, how many can work with OpenWRT, and make a 2-3 device pilot try?
Survey your devices, how many can work with OpenWRT, and make a 2-3 device pilot try?
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How do you do such a pilot try?
You have say 20 AP-s, 2-3 are in corners where they are never used, so you have enough PoC test base.
Aha Thanks. And yes i have about 50 devices but some are not always on
In principle I don't need an Omada either (I also found it annoying that if something goes wrong you can't immediately control the router) but I did find it useful that I could see exactly on which port of the 24-way switch a certain device is connected. Especially since a lot of my cables run behind furniture. So I also have 2 devices that run on 10 Gig (the NAS and the Mac mini) and they also have to run on 10G, but the router won't interfere with that, right? Furthermore, it is useful if I (because I have quite a few devices, something like 50) can give the most important devices a fixed IP address. That is a bit clearer.
omada problem is that you need controller now and then and network does not return to full function without controller. No such pains with OpenWISP - once config is done device works autonomously.
That sounds good, but is Openwisp as widely spread and free as Openwrt? so are there also many extensions available for Openwisp like with Openwrt?
It is management server that prepares pre-configured images and manages live AP-s.
Obviously each manages multiple AP-s thus it is at least 50x less popular and widespread.
I think i use the more common openwrt, an i think this: Banana Pi BPI-R4 WiFi 7
what about a Dell E42W 620 ?
Any virtual machine can run openwisp server.
not expensive but i think too much power used.