Anyone setup Unifi UDM in HA Shadow mode as of yet.

[Davit2005]

Got a query that I cannot seem to answer.

 

Scenario, want to replace my 2 home firewalls that are HA Active/Passive. The firewalls I have disable all ports apart from management and HA on the passive device.

 

Looking at 2 UDM Pros in HA Shadow mode to repalce them as trying to get updates for my current firewalls is a PITA. Soon will be moving to FTTP so would like to have the UDMs at the perimeter once I remove the DrayTek vDSL.

 

My main concern is it I have switches directly plugged into the UDM via any of the LAN ports will I encounter loops? I don't want to really wnat to have a core switch and route vlans on the core although I have a few MicroTiks kicking around. I run MSTP on the switches. I'm not sure if the UDMs can use MSTP. I'm reasonably happy with the switches I have at the moment.

 

Going with the UDMs since they now can work by Zones which I prefer and will be less of a headache dealing with interface based rules.

 

I have an extensive home network, I guess been my hobby as well as fulltime job but it keeps me off the streets and gives me a good lab to play with. I don't run AD anymore at home though, lol mainly IoT/Smarthome projects, NAS for video work, etc.

Edited February 18, 2025 by Davit2005