{"id":292,"date":"2018-02-04T14:16:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T13:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gee-jee.net\/?p=292"},"modified":"2018-06-22T09:00:19","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T07:00:19","slug":"firewall-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gee-jee.net\/?p=292","title":{"rendered":"Firewall upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have been running a Ubiquiti Edgemax ERL-3 firewall for quite some time now and although it&#8217;s a good device, it does have its limits. So when Ubiquiti announced the new Edgerouter 4 and Edgerouter 6, I was very much interested.<br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"388\" height=\"130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gee-jee.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/er4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gee-jee.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/er4.jpeg 388w, https:\/\/www.gee-jee.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/er4-300x101.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With double the memory, double the CPU speed, SFP port and a built in power supply unit, life looks good \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The upgrade was also fairly simple. Updated the firmware to the latest 1.10.0, restored the backup configuration of the ERL-3 and I was up and running again in no time. The only thing I had to manually do was to add eth3 as this doesn&#8217;t exist on the ERL-3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Performance is pretty good, the whole interface just feels a bit quicker overall. The ERL-3 was handling the maximum up\/download speed fine as well so at some point in time, I might do a quick gigabit test in a lab setup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been running a Ubiquiti Edgemax ERL-3 firewall for quite some time now and although it&#8217;s a good device, it does have its limits. So when Ubiquiti announced the new Edgerouter 4 and Edgerouter 6, I was very much interested. With double the memory, double the CPU speed, SFP port and a built in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gee-jee.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gee-jee.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gee-jee.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gee-jee.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gee-jee.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.gee-jee.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/www.gee-jee.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gee-jee.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gee-jee.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gee-jee.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}