Review of the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite

[NodeBytes]

So I had some spare time while on vacation so I finally finished the first revision of a review on the EdgeRouter lite. For anyone wanting to see more pictures of the system I posted screenshots as well...

http://www.bcarlsonmedia.com/projectlog/2013/10/18/ubiquiti-edge-router-lite-review

If you want to see anything else that isn't there or have questions let me know. 

 

[WebSearchingPro]

Pretty awesome, did you get a good deal on it?

 

[GIANT_CRAB]

Heard from @Boltersdriveer that it was pretty good too.

Maybe Colocrossing should use these instead because they can't afford others. (According to benchmarks, it showed that they were even better than expensive CISCO and Jupiner routers)

 

[KuJoe]

I love those ER Lites! We had 2 in Tampa (VRRP) and they were amazing. Then again, I'm a huge fan of Vyatta so having a hardware router running Vyatta was a win-win for us since our scripts ported over without any changes.

 

[NodeBytes]

Pretty awesome, did you get a good deal on it?

Yeah, I spent just what it is worth on Amazon plus I had some credit on Amazon from a promo so in total I payed about $70 for it.

Heard from @Boltersdriveer that it was pretty good too.

Maybe Colocrossing should use these instead because they can't afford others. (According to benchmarks, it showed that they were even better than expensive CISCO and Jupiner routers)

In some ways it's better, in others not as much.

I love those ER Lites! We had 2 in Tampa (VRRP) and they were amazing. Then again, I'm a huge fan of Vyatta so having a hardware router running Vyatta was a win-win for us since our scripts ported over without any changes.

I saw your posts before and I liked what I saw so I tried em out. They're awesome!

 

[ServerBros]

We have one in our colo in Manchester, lovely piece of kit - finally some decent GUI compared to the bog standard!

 

[bdtech]

Anyone use this is their primary router for VPS hosts? Can you make a pair of these highly available?

 

[KuJoe]

We were running 2 in our Tampa cabinet with 7 VPS nodes pushing 70-100Mbps without issue. VRRP worked perfect (minus IPv6).

 

[NodeBytes]

How many gigabit drops do you have connected?

 

[KuJoe]

We had just a single drop to each router.

 

[concerto49]

Sadly even the highest end model that is now released doesn't have 10G ports. At least there's SFP.

 

[NodeBytes]

For the price, you can't really find much better. 10Gbps would be nice though.

 

[DamienSB]

@kujoe does/can it handle BGP?

 

[shovenose]

@kujoe does/can it handle BGP?

I'm not Kujoe but yes it does.

 

[DamienSB]

I'm not Kujoe but yes it does.

Well, im asking if it does *well* running BGP, Just because you can "conf t | router bgp #" doesnt mean it can handle full bgp tables. I see that it does have 512MB of ram, but i'm not sure if that is enough. @KuJoe do you run BGP on them?

 

[shovenose]

Well, im asking if it does *well* running BGP, Just because you can "conf t | router bgp #" doesnt mean it can handle full bgp tables. I see that it does have 512MB of ram, but i'm not sure if that is enough. @KuJoe do you run BGP on them?

Well, again, I'm not KuJoe but I know somebody who uses these quite seriously so to speak and it does well at BGP.

 

[KuJoe]

We did static routes only. 

 

[Wintereise]

I really doubt this will do fulltable BGP, and actually be able to hold onto that.

tl;dr: Go get routerboards if you need el cheapo BGP routers.

 

[KuJoe]

I would take this over any routerboard any day.

 

[NodeBytes]

I'm just running static routes as well.

I know of others in the ubiquiti community who are using it for BGP in a production environment and apparently it works well.