My Full Unifi Network Setup - Firewall Rules, VLANs, WiFi, and more

[@NotifyMikeRundle]

Most KZbin videos on Unifi do not come close to the great explanations you give here. A BIG HELP for me! THANK YOU!

[@NightHawkATL]

Unifi has come a long way in just a few years. I had lots of issues trying to setup a few networks I was doing for clients but finally got them going. But I was trying to use the USG and they eventually crapped out with all the traffic. I couldn't justify the bigger gateways at the time with the cost of them.

[@paulmoody1859]

Maybe down the road you could expound upon the steps you took to work through the ATT Fiber gateway and into the UDM Pro. I have the Arris BGW210-700 and it seems as though everyone has different steps to get a good signal to the UDM. It only has a pass-through capability but it would be great to hear how you did it. Thanks.

[@FatherJoeMcCorny]

Thank you once again mister Owl for the great video ❤. Have my inter-vlan rules now set up via firewall rules but this inspires me to try traffic rules instead.

[@DPCTechnology]

Thanks for the walk thru, grabbed a couple of nuggets...

[@GrishTech]

The fitting word for unifi in an enterprise: Uniprise. Well said. That was not an error on your part. 😂

[@alexk.9598]

Awesome - thanks a lot for video. I'm a Unifi Newbee and this helped me a lot 👍👍

[@Bictor20]

Thank you for this nice overview of your network setup. I briefly saw that you have a Chromecast and I was wondering if you could elaborate on how you have it set up? I have my Chromecast on my IoT VLAN and I can't cast from my main network no matter what I try.

[@macm3086]

The channel has provided me with a lot of valuable information. We intend to install five wireless access points that are connected via a Poe switch. Should each access point be configured separately? Can there be a set-up of a master and slave, so that one master will replicate all others, as in an Aruba Access Point?

[@Mollernak]

Thank you so much, helped sort my inter-vlan rules, well at least for now

[@nerd_fathersons5468]

Get a USW Pro Aggregation and run the swiches from that, it have SFP28 for the 10G switch

[@DavidMaciasPhoto]

Awesome Tutorial Brett.

[@FENATECH]

Thank you for your videos. I am new to Unifi and have been learning a lot from them. I have a couple of questions. In the video you mention that one section of security area I believe “Traffic Rules” is not specific in the order that they are created and that these rules are processed by Allows first then Blocks. However, “Firewall” Rules are processed in the specific order from top to bottom. Do I have that correct? Traffic rules are similar to Firewall rules but a more simplistic/generic approach? Not sure I understand the difference between them. Thank you again.

[@briancross4415]

Is Ubiquiti still using router on a stick or do they have any layer 3 switches?

[@tomtech1537]

I've designed networks to handle 10's of thousands of machines, engineered external networks to deal with millions of concurrent users, written thousands of ACL's and stateful firewall rules, debugged incredibly complex asymmetric routing issues, reverse engineered router firmware to find ring buffer limits... ALL of this is FAR easier than the sore excuse for firewall management that exists in the UDM line.

[@cheesey712]

Great info, Thank you!

[@lucasmonteiroi]

Awesome setup, it's possible to have a cheap Network devices for homelab? Unifi it's a little expensively

[@RaidOwl]

Check out my Omada Short Stack video

[@enjibkk6850]

That's what I did, super happy so far

[@BoraHorzaGobuchul]

Omada. If not cheap enough, there's used. If not cheap enough, there's Chinese stuff, but it will be painful to manage and risks are somewhat higher depending on yourv paranoia re ccp/Chinese hackers

[@jadan2000]

this was very interesting to see. can I ask what is in your main vlan? also if you have smart tvs, where would they be?

[@saeedahmad3748]

I had AT&T fiber internet, looking at your diagram it goes direct to UTM pro without any router in-between, is it possible with UDM pro? please help me.

[@pwnz0riz0r]

If I'm converting from an Orbi router connected to two wired satellites, would I only need a Dream Machine and 2 APs?

[@TutoDS2014]

Is possible to have like a mini pc with home assistant in two vlans'

[@kristopherleslie8343]

Excellent video buddy

[@jamescoffer5077]

Hi Raid, From your setup, can I use an Aggregation Switch Layer 2 (8-port SFP+ 10GB) for my fiber optic cable backbone between the Dream Machine Pro, the USW Enterprise XG 24, and other USW Enterprise switches? Can I configure VLAN ports on the other switches if I only have the Aggregation Switch Layer 2? All my switches are layer 3 except Aggregation switch. Hope you answer my question. Thank you and Good day

[@RaidOwl]

Yeah that will work but all the routing will still be handled by the DMP, not the Agg Switch (if you were even planning that). You’ll be perfectly fine. I plan on doing a video soon on L3 offloading to a switch soon.

[@jamescoffer5077]

​@@RaidOwl Thank you so much for the inputs. Your explanation is so great and really really easy to understand. Waiting for your video L3 offloading to a switch. Thank you for the BIG HELP.

[@kevinstevenson5787]

I cannot get into my dashboard any more... used to have a link, but that was deleted. I thought it used the router ip address, but that isnt wokring. I have 3 discs in my home network and cannot update them any more. Help!

[@RobertWallace-w9r]

Love your videos! I'm just learning more about networking and have heard your discontent regarding Unify Networks. I'm thinking about going with an Omada setup because I think I can get it to do what I want for about a third less than what I would spend on Unify. Is there no networking "Brand" out there that does what you want or is there such a cost disparity that you settle for Unify? Just curious!

[@js1360]

have you considered star topology for switches ? and APs? connecting those to UDM instead of switch. One less single point of failure, routing would be optimal.

[@RaidOwl]

Yeah I’ve configured it a few different ways. This one is the flavor of the month lol

[@RobertWelchman]

would love a follow up and more detail on the PI VPN setup...I didn't realize you could do that! Thanks!

[@griffinsteffy]

Crosstalk has a video I believe

[@romayojr]

all of us to unifi: 23:49

[@CampRusso]

🤔 was there an update that change the main dashboard to not show the firewall image? I used to see the USG but now it's a PC image. 🤨

[@sku2007]

I don't hard limit my guest network. But it has a very low QoS priority :D

[@babisral]

when I did my rules for my iot vlan I blocked trafic to and from all local networks, and then I made an allow rule for the ports and ips I need. Are there any downside from doing it that way? I only put a hue bridge, tv and surround on it so far. I also made an allow rule for the plex server hosted on another vlan.

[@LIKKLEbitCsale]

Hey Raid Owl I got a question for you: any tips or suggestions on how to get "Local DNS Record" working with IP address reservations for your self hosted services?

[@scrampker]

hey just wanted to give you a heads up that they did release actual DNS reservations that is a different section than Local DNS Record. It's nearly full-featured and lets you assign local addresses for docker services/etc.

[@cdoublejj]

surley distributed falls back to failover if one isp dies it would be pretty dumb if it just stopped routing when one goes down

[@RaidOwl]

Maybe 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@subsonicbass]

Any chance you could do a video on WireGuard set up in Unifi? Tried a few times to get it set up and while I can hit my UDM Pro, I get no internet access from the inside 😢

[@RaidOwl]

Might be able to help you out in the Discord. Link in the video description.

[@Richard_GIS]

Loved it, thy

Yessir! MF legend is back and just in time for my new UniFi setup.

[@larsa.andersen8255]

Can you please comment on the noise level of the XG-24? I have an US-16-XG that is a little bit to loud to have in the room next to my bedroom but I can't find any comment on the noise level of the XG-24 so your input will be greatly appreciated.

[@RaidOwl]

It’s extremely quiet. No shot you hear it a room over.

[@JasonsLabVideos]

Don't tell ANYONE but I have a UDM Pro in my rack ATM ! :O

[@RaidOwl]

I can’t believe it

[@JasonsLabVideos]

I LIKE IT !!@@RaidOwl

[@corbynt]

Are you able to get close to 10G inter-vlan routing from the UDMP? I was wondering if I'd need a layer 3 switch like the EnterpriseXG-24 for full 10G routing across vlans. Curious if you tested this maybe with/without IDS on if that is the bottleneck.

[@RaidOwl]

Much faster without ids. Saw around 6-7 which is enough for me.

[@corbynt]

@@RaidOwl I’ve never thought about running without IDS/IPS on. Is it that much of a risk or do you use other tools to do something similar?

[@scrampker]

@@corbynt I get about 1gbps with IDS/IPS enabled on my UDM/SE. It's atrocious. If I migrate the related VLANS to my L3 switches, the speed drastically improves, but you lose almost ALL firewall functionality. I think this is a massive oversight. Why can't we disable IDS/IPS on internal traffic? You shouldn't have to place your workstation on the same VLAN as your servers to get proper 10gbps speeds to file shares.

[@domadox]

I wonder whats your total power consumption for this setup? Do you have numbers?

[@RaidOwl]

Just for the networking? I don’t. I’ll have to dig down in there

[@misckicirina]

Can I ask what made you switch from a pfsense gateway to Unifi DM Pro?

[@RaidOwl]

I had the unifi switches and APs so I wanted to see what the whole ecosystem was all about.

[@thbe51]

It must be a hard time to do these tutorials. I'm 4 month later and on version 8.2.93 and Ubiquiti have already move menus and other things around. Parts of this tutorial is already obsolete.....

[@ayden8901]

So i take it u like Unifi now? I remember ur video trying it out coming from open or pfsense and u didnt seem to like unifi all that much :)

[@RaidOwl]

I never disliked 'Unifi' I just don't particularly like how they approach firewall rules. Everything else has been great.

[@jehlybean636]

No PPSK?

[@bentheguru4986]

Idea on Inter-VLAN is not fully correct. You have Gen-2 switches that are L2/L3, I will let you figure out the rest. Your network ports, if you don't set the VLAN's on the port, they are trunk and your devices are exposed to ALL VLAN's on your network. Gateway monitoring works loosely. If you have a UXG, be prepared for fustration as you need to reboot the turds every few days as they stop recording/reporting. WAN DNS is just that, WAN side, so I am guessing you have possibly double NAT and a PITurd infront? If you want DNS done for your network, do it in the NETWORKS. WAN side doesn't sneak back inside the network for WAN DNS. More on this shortly. DHCP snooping on UniFi is known for being resource hungry. Turn ON Flow Control. I did see that your "external" network is possibly open, now refer to my second line comment. Your switch ports are open and exposed.... I'm out of here.

[@blindtechh]

Nice

[@headlibrarian1996]

Unifi routes VLAN traffic through the UDMP? That's nuts, inter-client traffic such as workstationNAS that doesn't go to the Internet should never hit your UDMP, it should be routed in the switch.

[@RaidOwl]

Next Unifi Network update will make you happy ;)

[@headlibrarian1996]

@@RaidOwl Oh? Do tell.

[@kc0eks]

Thank you for using a good mic and not having insane lip smack sounds like some other tech you tubers. Ruins their content.

[@shephusted2714]

ubiquiti is not really ready for ent deployments due to poor ipv6 support - try it yourself and see how terrible it is

[@maxbroomfield5392]

At least the routing. UniFi routing is horrible. Their switching and AP’s are pretty good.

[@wodn184fn8]

only 1% uses ipv6. Routing, yes its not their best thing, but at least they give you the easy options of sd wan and shadow mode which works perfect.

[@mr_DIY]

And who is doing it right?

[@antoniobowden4849]

Who tf cares about ipv6

[@mr_DIY]

those where spec say ipv6 only?

[@LiLBitsDK]

makes no sense that the 8port would have to go all the way back to the dreammachine and then down the tree again? if that network worked correct it would go up 1 step and then down 1 step the other side of the tree and be done...

[@RaidOwl]

Unifis implementation of L3 switches isn’t as intuitive as you’d think. You CAN have the switch perform inter vlan routing but not with actual firewall rules so it’s not very useful.

[@LiLBitsDK]

@@RaidOwl that's an insane amount of wasted network traffic that is not needed... mindblown...

[@jorisdevaan6845]

OCD instantly kicks in when I see 4 switches connected to each other in a chain :) I would never set my network up like this, so many points of potential failure.

abou wifi...than U see me that I give password almost to everyone...xd

[@PowerUsr1]

Writing those firewall rules is ASS

[@tomtech1537]

Forgot how bad they are and just redid my network with unifi... Redoing firewall rules now and I have incredible amounts of regret...

[@YHK_YT]

Unify the subscribe button with the bell, the like button as the best man while commenting is the ring man !!11

[@dimitristsoutsouras2712]

Too much radiation in your house. Are you living in a factory size space? Have you ever measured this radiation or you re kind of live fast -> die young-> stay pretty type of guy?

[@RaidOwl]

You think I’m pretty??? 😍😍

[@dimitristsoutsouras2712]

@@RaidOwl hahahah its a rephrase of Jim Morrison's punch line.

[@BoraHorzaGobuchul]

Oh my. The radiation. Saul Goodman's brother, aintchya?

[@RileySalm]

Please stop using vlan 1 it hurts to see

[@RaidOwl]

No

[@tomtech1537]

Less painful than trying to coerce a unifi network into not using it.