# The Ubiquiti EdgeRouter: Configuring this extremely low-cost, enterprise-grade router for home use

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Published: 2015-01-11T08:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Larry Land](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/larry-land.md>)

Topics: [Ubiquiti](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ubiquiti.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networking.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>), [ssh](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ssh.md>), [OpenSSH](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/openssh.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/configuration.md>)

Tags: [cli](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cli.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/configuration.md>), [cost](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cost.md>), [enterprise](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/enterprise.md>), [firmware](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/firmware.md>), [ip](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ip.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/networking.md>), [router](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/router.md>), [ssh](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ssh.md>), [ubiquiti](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ubiquiti.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial for configuring the Ubiquiti EdgeMAX EdgeRouter Lite for home use, with related guidance for the EdgeRouter-X. It covers command-line administration, initial setup, firmware, SSH access, port forwarding, dynamic DNS, IPv6, and NAT-PMP.

## Source excerpt

Updated Jan 17, 2015: Moved the dynamic DNS away from a scheduled task to the new custom- service method Updated Apr 3, 2016: Added dynamic DNS instructions for iwantmyname Updated Jul 24, 2016: Added NAT-PMP for UPnP, up-to-date dynamic DNS methods, IPv6 instructions, and EdgeRouter-X mention I've gotten a new, inexplicable, love for Ubiquiti. They fit in my favorite category of companies: they make high quality products that cost nothing compared to the old-boys-club equivalents. Oh and these products look spectacular. I'm actually quite surprised how UBNT is able to do all the things they do... I couldn't support them more. After finding out about them from MonkeyBrains, I looked through their product line to be quite surprised at the feature sets, yet still low cost. Being a huge fan of networking equipment, I decided to buy their cheapest router (at the time), the EdgeMAX EdgeRouter Lite. A 3 port, gigabit-capable router, that can really only be configured by commandline. Today, they have an even cheaper version of it, for $50! The EdgeRouter-X. For this article, we're going to configure the EdgeRouter Lite for home-use. Instructions should be similar if not identical for the EdgeRouter-X. A Challenger Appears! and it's only $100! Getting going First off, like I mentioned, this thing is only really configurable via commandline. It uses a forked version of the opensourced edition of Vyatta 6.3 (now maintained as VyOS post their acquisition by Brocade). So to learn about how this thing works, you'll need to read pages upon pages of documentation from the old Vyatta docs keeping in mind the Ubnt has modified a bunch of stuff too. A lot of help is available on their community page. Oddly enough, they don't document anything they do, so you're stuck reading release notes and harassing the employees that troll the forums. A great way to get started is to read the EdgeOS CLI Primer and the Basic System [PDF] docs. When you buy and receive yours, plug into Port 0, assign