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Re:UniFi 5G by wrobelda on Friday December 05, 2025 @06:13AM (#46159743)
You actually can install Openwrt on bunch of their hardware
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Re:UniFi 5G by idatum on Friday December 05, 2025 @03:26PM (#46166798)
Or OpenBSD, in my case a USG-3P. I would have otherwise tossed it but now it's a nice OpenBSD switch.

    OpenBSD 7.7 (GENERIC) #339: Sun Apr 13 17:52:27 MDT 2025
        [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/octeon/compile/GENERIC
    real mem = 536870912 (512MB)
    avail mem = 521142272 (497MB)
Only complaint I have with Unifi is so-so IPv6 support. I'd love to see a NAT64/DNS64 option configurable in their UI.
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Re:UniFi 5G by danudey on Friday December 05, 2025 @04:49PM (#46167848)
Out of the box, my Unifi Security Gateway runs Debian, as did my previous Unifi AC access points.

I just checked and my new Wifi 7 APs don't run Debian though, they...

    admin@BedroomAP:~# cat /etc/os-release
    NAME="OpenWrt"
    VERSION="23.05-SNAPSHOT"
    ID="openwrt"
    ID_LIKE="lede openwrt"
    PRETTY_NAME="OpenWrt 23.05-SNAPSHOT"
    VERSION_ID="23.05-snapshot"
    ....
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