![]() On other dual WAN routers I’ve tested (see LRT224 review,) I’ve seen failover occur in less than two pings. This default EdgeOS WAN failover is acceptable, but could be quicker. I disconnected the Ethernet cable on the EdgeRouter Lite to the active Internet connection carrying the ping traffic and saw 11 missed pings before failover occurred and the pings were successful again. I tested the default Load Balancing setup with two different Internet connections by running a continuous ping from my PC to the Internet ( ping 8.8.8.8 -t). You can see the status of the eth0, eth1, and eth2 in the below image from the dashboard with the EdgeRouter Lite configured with the Load Balancing Wizard. Eth2 is set up as a LAN port providing a DHCP server for 192.168.1.0/24. With the Load Balancing Wizard on the EdgeRouter Lite, eth0 is an Internet/WAN port used to connect to one Internet Service Provider (ISP) and eth1 is another Internet/WAN port used to connect to your second ISP. The Load Balancing Wizard allows for equal load balancing between dual Internet/WAN connections. I used the Basic Setup Wizard for the remaining sections of this review. Eth1 and eth2 are set up as LAN ports providing a DHCP server for 192.168.1.0/24 on eth1 and 192.168.2.0/24 on eth2. ![]() With the Basic Setup Wizard on the EdgeRouter Lite, eth0 is the Internet/WAN port used to connect to your ISP. The EdgeRouter Lite has just three Gigabit Ethernet ports (eth0, eth1, and eth2). The EdgeOS user guide suggests the Basic Setup Wizard for typical Small Office Home Office (SOHO) deployments. The EdgeOS lists five Wizards to simplify initial setup:Įach Wizard erases the router and sets up various port configurations and enables Network Address Translations (NAT) and the firewall with default settings. I would have put it to the far left, as this is the first thing you’re going to want to use to get the router up and running. ![]() The Wizards configuration tab is on the far right. The below image of the EdgeOS dashboard, which is the main page once you log in, shows the configuration tabs (Dashboard, Traffic Analysis, Routing, Firewall/NAT, Services, VPN, QoS, Users, Config Tree, and Wizards) for EdgeOS v1.9. Comparing the table of contents between the two shows updates include Traffic Analysis, VPN, and QoS. The EdgeOS User Guide has expanded from 57 pages for v1.4 to 104 pages for v1.9. Since our router test process has evolved and become tougher, we’ll also see whether the ERLite still earns its reputation as "gigabit" grade. So I’ll concentrate this review on the features and usability of EdgeOS v1.9.1. Except for a switch to a metal case from plastic, hardware in the EdgeRouter Lite hasn’t changed from our original review (Cavium dual-core CN5020 500 MHz with 512 MB RAM). In this review, I’m going to explore the ERLite with EdgeOS v1.9.1. and the ERLite’s reputation for being both fast and cheap, we thought it was time to revisit whether the ERLite should still carry a "not for networking newbies" caveat. But with "gigabit"-or at least 500 Mbps+-internet service becoming more common in the U.S. Tim’s first look at the EdgeRouter Lite (ERLite) with EdgeOS v1.0.2 back in 2013 and my review of the EdgeRouter Pro with EdgeOS v1.4.0 in 2014 both concluded EdgeRouter performance was impressive, but ease of use was not.Īlthough EdgeOS is full-featured, many of those features required using the CLI, which put it beyond the skills of most consumer router shoppers. These transactions do not affect EdgeOS, because it is based on the open source vesion of Vyatta.ĮdgeOS has a Graphical User Interface (GUI), intended to simplify configuration and an integrated Command Line Interface (CLI) "for convenient access to advanced functions". Vyatta has gone through many changes since, including purchase by Brocade, which recently sold it to AT&T. The EdgeOS operating system for EdgeMax routers is a fork of Vyatta 6.3, an open source, specialized, Debian-based Linux distribution. Ubiquiti’s six EdgeMax routers provide high speed packet forwarding (1-2+ million packets per second) with varying amounts of physical ports and Power over Ethernet (PoE) capability (depending on model) at low cost. Ubiquiti bills its EdgeMax routers as “Advanced Routing Technology for the Masses”.
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