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by victor_vhv 327 days ago
I love the idea of centrally managing network infrastructure that can be ‘self-contained’ in a local service (whether a device, VM, or container).

TP-Link offers a similar solution via their ‘Omada’-enabled devices. Unfortunately, mixing different brands can feel counterproductive, so there’s significant vendor lock-in.

Does anyone know of a similar solution for OpenWrt devices?
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victor_vhv 326 days ago
Self answering here: Seems like OpenWisp[1] is what I was looking for. I haven't used it yet, but I'm adding it to my bucketlist (currently using Omada, but a bit dissapointed with the sluginess)

[1] https://openwisp.org/

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baby_souffle 323 days ago
> Seems like OpenWisp[1] is what I was looking for.

When I last looked into openWISP, it was a pretty good effort but has a very hard dependency on openWRT. If your entire network is not made up of hardware that has "good/stable" openWRT support then you're going to have a bad time.

I don't think there are any 10g switches that run openWRT well yet, for example. [0]

[0]: Yes, I know openWRT runs on amd/intel but those devices have a few NICs at most. There are no 48 port 1/10gig switches that run openWRT as far as I know...

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