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by peckrob 4165 days ago
I run this exact same setup (pfSense-based Mini-ITX router and several UAP-ACs), and it works outstanding. I had used DD-WRT for several years, but having hack pile up on top of hack to keep things running on DD-WRT. When we moved to a larger house, we could no longer adequately cover the house from a single router/access point combo, so I took the leap and built a pfSense machine. Absolutely don't regret it. After getting it set up, it just works with minimal intervention.

With a little work, you can get the Ubiquiti controller software running on the actual pfSense machine itself. http://community.ubnt.com/t5/UniFi-Wireless/Tutorial-UniFi-3...
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organsnyder 4165 days ago
I tried running the Ubiquiti controller software on the pfSense box for a while, but it was a pain - it took 5-10 minutes to start up, and it was lost whenever I did a pfSense upgrade. I've found it much easier to just point the access points at a general-purpose server (on-site if available, or on a remote VPS that I have already).
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feld 4164 days ago
The startup time was a weird combination of unifi/java/freebsd. I haven't seen it in some time.
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peckrob 4165 days ago
Weird. Other than the startup thing (which is not a big deal for me because I leave it running), I haven't had any problems upgrading. A few months ago I went to 2.1.5 and pretty much everything just worked.
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organsnyder 4165 days ago
Minor upgrades were fine. It was a major one (2.0 to 2.1) that wiped it out for me. This was on the embedded version of pfSense - the full version might behave differently.

Otherwise, the upgrade was one of the smoothest I've ever had for this sort of thing.

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