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Installing Sophos XG v20 Firewall home edition and SETTING up ALL ports as a router

alex makura

Hi, I have gone through a fair bit of posts and how-to online, so I decided to post the question here, after 5 days researching this.

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My setup:

Motherboard with 1 built-in 1000mb/s ethernet port, 2x PCI-e cards HP NIC 2 ports each at 2500mb/s, 3x PCI-e cards 1 port each at 1000mb/s (totalling 8 ethernet ports)

Install went through completely fine, I used the recommended security settings from initial wizard.

What do I have now: 1 HP NIC card has the WAN port and LAN port working ok.

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What I don't get: all other ports are showing in the UI interface, I have tried dhcp and fixed IP under networking, also same and different masking. but I get no internet access when I plug a cable into one of them

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What I would like:

What is the simplest way, as little configuration as possible, to have all ports working, ideally in the same range as LAN1 172.16.16.16 so that I can have internet access in all 7 ports in a plug-and-play mode.

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I have read a lot about bridge mode, not too sure if I need that on WAN or the working LAN1.

Could someone kindly let me know the easiest way to achieve that?

I'll work my way up, learning this platform, it will be quite a learning curve as there's so many features inside the software that I got overwhelmed just reading to sort this initial issue.

Anyway thanks in advance.



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    It sounds like you have alot of unsupported NIC's, what chipsets are they using?

    Sophos XG Engineer

    Sophos Silver Partner

  • 0 in reply to JimtheITguy

    I doubt that, as they are all recognized in the Sophos application. Also I have 2 NICs intel hp branded. one works fine the other connects (changes from unplugged to plugged) but still not finding my way to create a standard router gateway options. Works continues. I might try another reset (re-installation and start from beginning)

    My ISP provides internet via ethernet socket in the wall. So I'm not using any modem or switch before the sophos.

    Not at home now, but they are all new cards, purchased within the past 6 months.

    2x cards are: AXAGON  NIX PCIe 2.0, Gigabit Ethernet, Realtek RTL8111L, 1xRJ-45 

    2x cards are HP Intel PCIe  server dual port (will update model soon)

    1x internal motherboard ethernet Realtek RTL8111H ASUS LAN Guard

    1x intel pcie single port 1gbs (will update model soon)

  • 0 in reply to alex makura

    The default setting for xg is router close where you can setup a bridge but you need firewalls to allow traffic between each leg of the bridge it is not a normal router.
    ian

    XG115W - v20.0.2 MR-2 - Home

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  • 0 in reply to alex makura

    The default setting for xg is router close where you can setup a bridge but you need firewalls to allow traffic between each leg of the bridge it is not a normal router.
    ian

    XG115W - v20.0.2 MR-2 - Home

    XG on VM 8 - v21 GA

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  • 0 in reply to rfcat_vk

    hi, yes I understand the rules that needs to be setup to allow traffic. The only problem I see on the bridge mode is that it limits some functionalities of the Sophos as explained in the video above.

    Ideally I would like all ports to have complete functions of the software. It's quite simple 1 WAN, 7 LANs ... all with internet access either with fixed or dhcp access.

    But still on setting up, let's see what happens.

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