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Does Sophos XG 19 Home Edition support Intel i225v 2.5G chipset now?

HI there,

I seem to be finding competing information about this online.

I am looking to purchase hardware for a new router, using Sophos XG 19 Home Edition.

I'm looking at a device with 4 2.5Gg ports. It has an Intel Celeron J4125 2,0 GHz-2,70 GHz CPU, 8GB RAM, 128 mSATA SSD, and most importantly 4 x Intel i225v network ports.

Is the i225v 2.5G chipset now supported in XG 19 Home Edition?

If not, what 2.5G chipset is supported?

Thanks in advance for your time and advice!

Ken

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alan weir over 1 year ago in reply to rfcat_vk +2

Sophos does support the many fanless PCs that were marketed towards home/business users such as the Qotom mini PCs with the Intel 211 chipsets. Then Sophos decided to stop supporting the newer NICs, citing…

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0 rfcat_vk over 1 year ago

Hi Ken,

trhat NIC is not supported. There is a way around the the issue and that is to install a VM.

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0 rfcat_vk over 1 year ago

Hi Ken,

trhat NIC is not supported. There is a way around the the issue and that is to install a VM.

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0 ken Mills over 1 year ago in reply to rfcat_vk

Thanks Ian, I appreciate the info. Yeah running a VM would make it way more complicated than I wanted, and I don't think the device Celeron can handle it.

Do you know what 2.5G chipsets that are supported by Sophos?

Cheers,

Ken
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0 Peter-Paul Gras over 1 year ago in reply to ken Mills

Have you tried the Realtek adapter: realtek.com

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0 ken Mills over 1 year ago in reply to Peter-Paul Gras

Hey Peter, Thanks! No but I will certainly check it out, if Sophos supports it! Now to find a micro PC with that chipset :-)
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0 rfcat_vk over 1 year ago in reply to ken Mills

It would work quite well on a 4 core celerton with the XG as the only application.

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0 ken Mills over 1 year ago in reply to rfcat_vk

Hey again, so I am assuming that Sophos also does not support the latest Intel i226 and 1226-v 2.5G network cards?

Thx!
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0 rfcat_vk over 1 year ago in reply to ken Mills

Hi,

looking at the specifications the device is aimed at the home/laptop/tablet market and other variants at fixed low power devices therefore it will be safe to assume it will not be supported.

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0 ken Mills over 1 year ago in reply to rfcat_vk

Fair enough, that is a fair assumption. Thanks!
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0 Rieski over 1 year ago in reply to rfcat_vk

I disagree. It will be supported when kernel used is new enough to have support to this model. Nothing to do with fact it is home/laptop what ever variant. Sophos has not dropped support for such models in the past. Only reason those are not supported is that kernel does not have driver modules.
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0 rfcat_vk over 1 year ago in reply to Rieski

The stated reason from sophos about certain nics is they not heavy duty network devices.

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0 Rieski over 1 year ago in reply to rfcat_vk

All consumer grade nics that have kernel modules will work as I have stated before. Even Realtek ones. Reason these 2.5G nics are not supported is that kernel is several versions old and it just does not have necessary modules. Why are you giving out such false information to forums users?
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