I was previously with V***** M**** and I switched to IDNet as soon as CityFibre was ready for service at my property. Until recently I was using an Ubiquiti Edgerouter Lite (aka ERLite-3) but unfortunately it was no longer up to the task, as it does not support hardware offload for ipv6+vlan+pppoe (it supports /either/ ipv6+vlan or ipv6+pppoe but not both!). This resulted in the router effectively locking up whenever there was any non-trivial amount of IPv6 traffic. I looked around for a suitable replacement, and I ended up getting a good deal on an Alta Labs Route10 which was an ex-review unit. What follows is my experience so far.
Good:-
- The router feels like a quality device
- I was up and running quickly
- Good IPv6 support
- Two SFP+ ports and four 2.5G ports
Not so good:-
- There is nowhere to configure static routes
- You cannot set MTU on a specific interface (e.g. 1508 for WAN) - you can only enable "jumbo" frames on LAN
- You cannot configure local addresses (e.g. unique local unicast)
- The zone-based firewall seems limited to WAN and LAN zones
- Requires a controller, either in the cloud or self-hosted
- The self-hosted controller is not easy to manage (e.g. the docker container has no data volume to make manged upgrades easy)
- Managing dhcp reservations is fiddly
- You cannot disable the DHCPv6 server or manage reservations whatsoever
- It lacks common configuration management features you would expect (e.g. show | compare, commit confirmed, write memory, etc)
- The power supply is an uncommon 54V DC to the inclusion of PoE support - all my other networking gear is supplied from a single 12V DC PSU for which spares are very easy to obtain
- There is no console port - instead there is bluetooth
Despite all of the negatives, I am hopeful that most of the issues will be fixed via future software updates.
More information: https://www.alta.inc/route10 (https://www.alta.inc/route10)