Sophos Firewall

Sophos has just released the long awaited MR6, for SFOS v17, I have installed it, and it looks like the VPN dropouts, finally stopped 🙂 Release notes: Note: On v16 to v17 update, SFOS does not set SHA2 truncation on custom…
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Sophos released MR5 today, MR4 was “skipped” due to it’s use was just for the factory to support new hardware: It’s a big maintenance release as you can see. For my use case, I have a lot of IPSEC issues…
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When you use the internal DHCP server of the XG firewall, and you have configured dhcp static entries on ex. the LAN, and you then move the endpoint, ex. a laptop, to a branch office behind a red, where the…
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There are many things, you cannot configure from the XG Firewall GUI, therefore the XG has a CLI (console), where you can do the rest, here is the Command Reference Guide v16, also applicable for SFOS v17: SF-OS-Command-Reference-Guide Source: https://www.sophos.com/en-us/medialibrary/PDFs/documentation/SophosFirewall/v16/SF-OS-Command-Reference-Guide.pdf?la=en

Hooray! Finally it’s there, are you ready to onboard? I think they have gone a long way, but it looks promising, even though I am a faithfully UTM user, I just have to admit, that Sophos is not planning to…
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Finally XG 17 is moving towards something useable, beta2 has been released, and you now get a somewhat stable environment now: Read all about it here: https://community.sophos.com/products/xg-firewall/sophos-xg-beta-programs/sfos-v170-beta/f/sfos-v170-beta-feedback/96596/sfos-v17-0-beta2-released UTM config conversion tool, will maybe be available in November 2017, after XG…
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I’m beginning to collect shell commands also for XG firewall, so this article will be updated as they are learned 🙂 —————- Find raw text log files: Location: /var/tslog/ and symbolic link just /log —————- SMTP logfiles: Live logs: cd…
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From Sophos https://community.sophos.com/products/xg-firewall/b/xg-blog/archive/2016/04/24/sfos-15-01-0-mr-2-released: We’ve just released a maintenance release for Sophos XG Firewall. This update contains fixes for a number of issues reported on XG firewall thus far. News Maintenance Update Remarks System will be rebooted   Download full release…
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Read more: https://community.sophos.com/products/xg-firewall/f/46/t/75072

Sophos made their new XG firewall available for HOME users, like the UTM was, but this time there is no restictions on IP’s! : The home use version no longer has any IP limits, but is limited to 4 CPU…
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