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Bridge Mode deployment not working

Hi All.

I have setup a Sophos Home OS in a virtual environment and I have no problems with it when it is set as Gateway mode. The problem I have is I need it to be working in Bridge Mode. Let's consider Port A=WAN and Port B=LAN, the interfaces I have set for bridge mode. I have a router with, for the sake of example, IP address 192.168.60.1 that serves as the gateway for internet use.

I plugged Port A to router; and I plugged Port B to a switch where the PC is connected. I set Sophos as Bridge Mode and set an IP 192.168.60.5 for Sophos. And, of course, the gateway IP is the router which is 192.168.60.1. I created an initial policy LAN to WAN with web filter that disallows video streaming and common adult sites.

Now, my problem is upon connecting a PC to the switch (same subnet as the router, and an unmanage switch for this) and monitoring the dashboard of Sophos admin, or even the traffic, there are no traffic passing through it. I can still access streaming sites and adult sites even though I already set to block it. Did I plug something wrong with it?

**By the way, I already read the transparent mode of UTM and the KB for bridge deployment as well several times.

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lferrara over 8 years ago

Deejauy,

on your ESX did you create 2 vSwitch (one for WAN and one for LAN) where promoscous mode is active?

Then create the bridge and everything should work as expected.
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Dionisio IIIHicban over 8 years ago in reply to lferrara

Hi ilferra,

I'm using Windows Server 2012 R2 and enabled its virtual machine role where I house Sophos home. I have one NIC for LAN, and another for WAN. I have no problems setting it as Gateway mode, but I can't make it work as Bridged mode.

In bridge mode, I should set the gateway of the client as the ip address of the router gateway, right?
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Dionisio IIIHicban over 8 years ago in reply to lferrara

Hi ilferra,

I'm using Windows Server 2012 R2 and enabled its virtual machine role where I house Sophos home. I have one NIC for LAN, and another for WAN. I have no problems setting it as Gateway mode, but I can't make it work as Bridged mode.

In bridge mode, I should set the gateway of the client as the ip address of the router gateway, right?
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lferrara over 8 years ago in reply to Dionisio IIIHicban

Deejay,

I do not have a lot of experience on Hyper-V. Anyway you should use 2 different physical card, create 2 virtual switch and create 2 virtual nic where mirroring mode is enabled.

Have a look at this link:

http://blog.ittoby.com/2013/08/hyper-v-port-mirroring-and-network.html

If you will be able to configure it, share your configuration here.

Thanks.
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Dionisio IIIHicban over 8 years ago in reply to lferrara

lferrara,

Thanks for the tip. I'll try to enable the mirroring mode since that's the only thing I haven't done yet. I'll get back if I will discover something helpful for others to see as well.

Thanks!
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