Arista Networks acquires Untangle
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Yes, and no. Arista get a simple ready-to-go edge security and SD WAN solution for not a massive amount of money. Untangle’s owners get a cash bonus and a massive influx of development money and a hardware platform to grow on. What it means for home users is probably very, very, bad.
Arista are very much in the corporate space. Untangle and their ‘small’ SD-WAN solution would open up a whole new line of sales opportunities in the SME arena but I can’t see Arista wanting to deal with retail consumers so I strongly suspect the home packages will disappear.
Makes sense, I've only ever dealt with HP/Aruba and Cisco in the corporate space etc. Not that you can buy much atm, 180 day lead time for a Cisco 9K!
I agree looking at their website further that I can see them dropping the home packages etc. Not sure how much market penetration Untangle has outside of the USA.
I have a 3 year licence, I will definitely be looking into alternates depending on the direction taken.
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. It might transform into a beautifully engineered hardware solution…if you wanted to compete with UniFi, Arista have the hardware and MicroEdge and Next Generation Firewall fill the software gaps. It could be amazing(ly expensive).
What are you planning?...
I figured i'd go with something nice and reliable from a reputable company who take security seriously - Netgate and ASUS are currently the top contenders
I figured i'd go with something nice and reliable from a reputable company who take security seriously - Netgate and ASUS are currently the top contenders
Please go with the kind gentleman over there, the one with the nice white coat.
I'm back in IPFire atm, but really missing BSD. I have my servers running FreeBSD atm and it's a breath of fresh air over systemd and modern Linux bumph (Snap on server, anyone?). I canned OpenWRT temporarily because of bugs in the connection counter. Every time I loaded connections in Luci the server crashed, but tbf I was running two Tor relays and had about 20k connections... No issues in IPFire so far.
Please go with the kind gentleman over there, the one with the nice white coat.
I'm back in IPFire atm, but really missing BSD. I have my servers running FreeBSD atm and it's a breath of fresh air over systemd and modern Linux bumph (Snap on server, anyone?). I canned OpenWRT temporarily because of bugs in the connection counter. Every time I loaded connections in Luci the server crashed, but tbf I was running two Tor relays and had about 20k connections... No issues in IPFire so far.
Things that look like they fell out of a transformers exhaust port with a proven history of unpatched CVE's and interfaces that drop like political scandals clearly make the best hardware and companies who hire bail jumping felons/racists who publish poor quality and un-audited code while seeking to blame the people who pointed the atomic poop storm out to them clearly make the best software, obviously just jealous
The short version is I think i'm going to end up back on OPNSense or OpenWRT sooner rather than later, the next question is what it runs on. I did see a write up about a dual 2.5Gbe intel based set-up from China and the available SoC options with dual 2.5GBe that run PF should run OPN, but i'm hoping the reports of the later Realtek drivers for BSD actually making them work properly prove accurate, if so i'll ride out the current build unless VM launch Gig2 or anything meaningfully faster than Gig1. I still have some small level of hope that the government definition of ultrafast encourages the uplift of uplink speed on VM sooner rather than later.
Things that look like they fell out of a transformers exhaust port with a proven history of unpatched CVE's and interfaces that drop like political scandals clearly make the best hardware and companies who hire bail jumping felons/racists who publish poor quality and un-audited code while seeking to blame the people who pointed the atomic poop storm out to them clearly make the best software, obviously just jealous
I'm in this post and I don't like it.
Was it on STH? I caught Patrick's video, and they look like nice little units! A Chinese chap replied saying those exact models are *extremely* popular and common on the mainland, and are rock solid provided you don't get a configuration with a fan (which tend to fail, and be hard to replace - custom size perhaps). I don't have anything Realtek based (not even an onboard somewhere), so can't confirm or deny for you on the *BSD front, sorry mate. We have Openreach threatening to lay FTTP here in the next year, and they've already done up to a few streets down the road (1/2 mile) so touch wood!