I like what I’ve seen with my Route10 so far. Set up was pretty straight forward and easy to configure once I figured out Alta’s management interface style. I’m using it with a local controller, which was also easy to configure.
I use jumbo frames on my network, but couldn’t find a configuration option for it in the Route10 management interface. The same is true for PXE on DHCP. Are these options available and I’m missing their location?
For future DHCP management interface updates, it would be nice to have a single pane to manage all DHCP settings per VLAN and the ability to pre-configure reservations for devices before they hit the network. Currently, it looks like you can only configure a reservation after the Route10 detects the device on the network.
This particular feature seems too error-prone for my tastes, but I understand why people would want it. However, I also don’t know of any interfaces that do it already. All that I can remember right now, for home and small business users typically, require that the device be connected first before you are allowed to assign a static lease. Even if the UX changes to a single tab for DHCP management instead of setting the lease directly on the client, these other UIs only allow you to select from currently connected devices. I’ve not yet found one that allows arbitrary assignments to arbitrary MACs.
Is there prior art you are trying to emulate with your experience?
When I spin up new virtual servers and containers, once the scripts complete, I’ll grab the MACs and pre-populate them in the DHCP server on my router with a reservation. The ideal end state would be the ability to add a command to the script that would do this programmatically in the firewall. This specific feature isn’t a deal breaker though.
Before I can pull my old firewall out, I will need to get PXE configured. Any ETA on this feature?
Looks like my only option to configure jumbo frames right now is to ssh into the router and set the mtu in /etc/config/network. That’s not a problem, but it would be nice to see this option in the web ui.
Already done inn Unifi Network … this may very useful for customer moving over with static ip clients, would make life easier, I have 50-60 client which are sprad across 4 VLANS so I really want to ensure that the correct IP are set as I port VLANS over.
example of adding a client to the Client DHCP pool
