Our company had a very good year and decided they wanted to invest in our IT infrastructure and 2-man team (yay!). We’ve decided that it was best to upgrade just about all of our networking equipment and that the easiest path would be to go with Ubiquiti switches and APs and Zyxel UTM routers for our 3 locations (site-to-site and client VPNs too). We’ve been wanting to implement VLANs for a long time, but we just didn’t have the proper equipment to do so.
Right now I have a tiny test environment and I have things working well. I’ve also been planning it out on paper and so far the only gotcha I’ve found is that for some reason Ubiquiti loves DHCP and will erase any static IP settings on reboot so provisioning all of these may be interesting. My thought is to increase our main network size from a /24 to a /23 in order to expand our DHCP pool appropriately. Then once all of the switches and APs are in place I can configure and put the routers into production and start configuring VLANs with routing.
I’m a few years out of school so this will be my first major upgrade. I know I will most likely run into issues, but I’m very excited to run a much more manageable network. Does anyone have any words of wisdom/caution? Here’s a pic of the goods: https://m.imgur.com/OQIS4lN
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