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Isolating IoT devices on Ubiquiti UniFi

April 9, 2022 Tech Hardware Networking iot wireless vlan ssid firewall unifi ubiquity udm udm pro

These instructions/screenshots were from an UDM Pro running:

UniFi OS UDM Pro 1.11.0 UniFi Network Application 7.0.23

Why

From the FBI field office in Portland:

Your fridge and your laptop should not be on the same network.¹

If those cheap "smart" lightbulbs you bought off Amazon get compromised because of …

Running Pi-hole on a UDM Pro

March 31, 2022 Tech Software container podman pihole dns networking udm udm pro

I have a Pi-hole Docker container running on my NAS, but DNS functionality is too important to have a single point of failure.

If something were to happen to my NAS, my home network would have no DNS resolution, which brings the network to it's knees.

I had been using a Raspberry Pi as my second DNS server, running …

Ubiquiti UDM Pro as a Wireguard VPN server

March 15, 2022 ubiquiti udm udm pro vpn wireguard wireguard vpn

I've been using Wireguard for a few months now, and the performance has been great, with zero stability issues.

I started by using a virtual machine for the Wireguard server, and once I got the configuration ironed out, then moved it to a Docker instance.

I later discovered that my Ubiquiti Ultimate Dream Machine Pro …

Using Cloudflare as a DDNS with UniFi

March 1, 2022 Tech Networking cloudflare dns ddns unifi ubiquiti udm udm pro

Configuring a Dynamic Domain Name Service (DDNS) on Ubiquiti's UniFi network manager is easy, if you use on of the configured providers that show up in the drop-down service.

I'd been using No-IP for a number of years, but decided to switch to Cloudflare as it was free, and given Cloudflare's reputation, reliable. …