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Sophos XG Home and Wireless section: remove?

DamoLi

HI,

So I've just installed Sophos XG Home and I can see the Wireless Tab is still present and some Wifi networks are still defined. I understand that XG Home does not support the Sophos AP wireless hardware, so should I just delete all the wireless networks in there as I plan to connect my own access point to an interface port, but I understand I will need to log into the access point itself to setup all the wireless stuff, but can use the XG Home for firewall control on that interface and give it a "WiFi" zone. Also the computer I set it up on does not have any wireless hardware.

If XG Home doesn't support AP then it should just hide that section totally (I assume I have Home, I started the setup in Eval mode and entered the license later, license page says "Evaluating" until 2999).

Regards

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  • 0 in reply to Vivek Jagad

    I do not have any Sophos AP or APX wireless hardware. I am using Sophos XG Home license.

  • 0 in reply to DamoLi

    Oh I misunderstood, you meant the in-built wireless, right ?

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  • +1 in reply to DamoLi

    Hi,

    you misunderstand, the home licence supports Sophos APs. While you can remove the default Wifi configuration you cannot remove the Wireless tab. You can create your own zones and name them what you like, the wifi zone does not offer any special benefits from other zones.

    If you are using the home licence on Sophos XG/XGS hardware you cannot remove the inbuilt WLAN, you can disable it.

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  • 0 in reply to rfcat_vk

    Oh, thanks I didn't know Home supported AP hardware, most of the doc online seem to imply it didn't. Means if my work every gets rid of their Sophos AP, it might find a new home.

  • 0 in reply to DamoLi

    That would depend on the model of AP. Some of the AP models are going to be end-of-life in December and they will no longer be able to be managed by the firewall. Now it is recommended to use the free Sophos Central Wireless.

    Sophos Firewall OS (XG Series only)

    The current expectation is that the latest maintenance release (MR) as of March 2023 will be the last firmware version to include management of the EOL access points, however, this is subject to change.

    • A few months before the EOL date: a banner will be shown under Wireless Protection in the user interface to alert admins to the upcoming EOL date.
    • After the final software release: access points managed in SFOS will no longer be visible and can no longer be managed.

    AP Series access points are not supported on XGS Series hardware.

    Sophos UTM (SG Series)

    There is currently no schedule for any changes to AP Series support in Sophos UTM.

    Sophos Access Point

    Access Point Series Lifecycle Milestones
     

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    Model Latest revision End-of-Sale (EOS) Beginning of advisory support End-of-Life (EOL) Migration path First supported Sophos UTM software release Last
    supported
    Sophos UTM
    software release    		 First Supported SFOS software release Last supported SFOS software release
    AP 5 1 30-SEP-2013 Not applicable 31-DEC-2014 APX 120 Not applicable Not applicable Not applicable Not applicable
    AP 10 2 30-NOV-2014 Not applicable 30-NOV-2017 APX 120 Not applicable Not applicable Not applicable Not applicable
    AP 15 1 31-MAR-2020 31-MAR-2021 31-DEC-2023 APX 120 9.207 Latest 9 15.01.0  Latest 19.x Excludes XGS Series
    AP 15C 1 31-MAR-2020 31-MAR-2021 31-DEC-2023 APX 120 9.400  Latest 9 16.01.0  Latest 19.x Excludes XGS Series
    AP 30 2 30-JUN-2015 Not applicable 30-JUN-2018 APX 320 Not applicable Not applicable Not applicable Not applicable
    AP 50 1 17-JUN-2015 Not applicable 17-JUN-2018 APX 320/530 Not applicable Not applicable Not applicable Not applicable
    AP 55 1 31-MAR-2020 31-MAR-2021 31-DEC-2023 APX 320 9.308 Latest 9 15.01.0  Latest 19.x Excludes XGS Series
    AP 55C 1 31-MAR-2020 31-MAR-2021 31-DEC-2023 APX 320 9.308 Latest 9 15.01.0  Latest 19.x Excludes XGS Series
    AP 100 1 31-MAR-2020 31-MAR-2021 31-DEC-2023 APX 530/740 9.207 Latest 9 15.01.0  Latest 19.x Excludes XGS Series
    AP 100C 1 31-MAR-2020 31-MAR-2021 31-DEC-2023 APX 530/740 9.308 Latest 9 15.01.0  Latest 19.x Excludes XGS Series
    AP 100X 2 1-AUG-2021
    (or as long as stocks last)    		 30-SEP-2022 31-DEC-2023 APX 320X
    APX 320X
    (Sophos Central
    Management only)    		 9.308 Latest 9 15.01.0  Latest 19.x
    APX 120 1 None declared None declared None declared None declared 9.700 Latest 9 15.01.0  Latest 19.x
    APX 320 1 None declared None declared None declared None declared 9.700 Latest 9 17.05 MR3 Latest 19.x
    APX 320X 1 None declared None declared None declared None declared Not currently supported Not currently supported Not currently supported Not currently supported
    APX 530 1 None declared None declared None declared None declared 9.700 Latest 9 17.05 MR3 Latest 19.x
    APX 740 1 None declared None declared None declared None declared 9.700 Latest 9 17.05 MR3
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