You actually can install Openwrt on bunch of their hardware

idatum · 2025-12-05T20:26:39 1764966399

Or OpenBSD, in my case a USG-3P. I would have otherwise tossed it but now it's a nice OpenBSD switch.

    OpenBSD 7.7 (GENERIC) #339: Sun Apr 13 17:52:27 MDT 2025
        [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/octeon/compile/GENERIC
    real mem = 536870912 (512MB)
    avail mem = 521142272 (497MB)

Only complaint I have with Unifi is so-so IPv6 support. I'd love to see a NAT64/DNS64 option configurable in their UI.

danudey · 2025-12-05T21:49:58 1764971398

Out of the box, my Unifi Security Gateway runs Debian, as did my previous Unifi AC access points.

I just checked and my new Wifi 7 APs don't run Debian though, they...

    admin@BedroomAP:~# cat /etc/os-release
    NAME="OpenWrt"
    VERSION="23.05-SNAPSHOT"
    ID="openwrt"
    ID_LIKE="lede openwrt"
    PRETTY_NAME="OpenWrt 23.05-SNAPSHOT"
    VERSION_ID="23.05-snapshot"
    ....