Just wondering if anyone uses an ERL (or an ERX, or a USG) in transparent bridge type mode, where the unit acts as:
- a filter and/or
- traffic shaping type of box.
I'm tired of pfSense. Their latest version has been frustrating.
It's inline as a transparent filter, basically, but I'd also like to do some basic traffic shaping which, that's where I'm frustrated with it.
I have an ERL. I worry that it won't handle a full gigabit internet connection if/when that happens (next year). Are there higher end models that'd be better suited to these tasks? A UniFi Gateway? I'm sure this little unit (ERL) could handle our current connections (much less than a gigabit...)
Basically, the pfSense box is doing
- pfBlockerNG - a few sets of filter lists... I've seen that ERLs can do this...
- DNS (after the internal AD servers - it's set to use OpenDNS servers...)
- ...I wish it did shaping...
- ...I wish it did Squidguard... which seems to fail in transparent mode.
Any suggestions on using Ubiquiti hardware for this kind of a job? Any others doing this in a medium environment? (just under 1k users, several web servers, etc.)
All I want is for it to be "inline" and to be able to help with some shaping, a little filtering, and it'd be really nice if I could set rules per-VLAN, per IP, per user, or, something. We used to have a Cymphonix for this (which got bought by Untangle). In a nutshell, I'm curious if Ubiquiti can do anything similar.