| For the routing/firewall side, I would encourage looking at either pfSense (as others here have suggested), or possibly VyOS. I used to have several Ubiquit USG devices as well as their EdgeRouter. I moved to pfSense as it's open-source, more stable, and gives you much better control/configurability on your hardware. There's a great ecosystem of packages on pfSense, that you can install via the web UI - making it a really feature-packed for a homelab. However, recently I've been moving to VyOS to pfSense, which is basically a stripped-down Linux distro, with a heavily tuned FRR routing stack built on top of it. VyOS is an open-source fork of Vyatta, which was previously owned/released by Brocade networks. It operates with a CLI, like many enterprise/commercial routing products. It takes a bit of getting used to, but it's really great to use in practice, and makes it easy to diff configurations, or rollback changes, or copy the same configuration across multiple devices. And of course, it implements with config-management software like SaltStack/Ansible (via Napalm), which is something that pfSense. If you have multiple pfSense devices, you basically need to point/click via the web UI on each one. For APs - Ruckus is great, as is HPE/Aruba (they have a new low-cost line that's targeting the Prosumer market) - they have both been leaders in the wifi field for ages, and have things like AP handover, RF tuning/optimisation, adaptive antennas etc down pat. |