We are considering purchasing a Sophos XGS 116W for a new location. We want to use the firewall to protect 2 network segments and a wireless network segment. We do not want any of these three networks segments to be able to see the other segments…

We are currently being provided a block of 5 static IP's through our Comcast Fiber EDI connection with Comcast providing us (2) ranges of IP's. We get an L3 range and a Usable range. My understanding of this is to allow easier troubleshooting of the Comcast…

In our production environment we have replaced our old firewall with a Sophos XGS 116. We have replicated the rules we had in our old firewall and everything seems to be going well: our applications are accessible, we can manage our databases... in short…

Hi We have a fibre link from our ISP with a static IP and a secondary / extra range of public IPs. Public IP: 100.100.100.62 (numbers made up) with GW 100.100.100.61 - This is the primary IP we use. We also have a set of secondary public IPs on…

Dear Mate, I've two links one is a static IP address another is a PPPoE connection, both links are ACTIVE connections, whenever a static IP link is down, the PPPoE connection is not working properly, it's very slow but that pppoe link is 400mbps line…

Hello. I have 5 different PPPOE accounts from my ISP .. ISP gave me one fiber modem with Ethernet cable out of it ... I was able to start one PPPoE session without any trouble, but I don't know how to start several sessions on one port. Adding an…

Running SFOS 19.5.0 GA-Build197 How to enable SNMP via WAN port? I have enabled: System > Administration > Device Access > SNMP on WAN and LAN There is no response to SNMP queries from the WAN. However, it works fine in LAN. What else needs to…

Hi all, I need to know how to configure my sophos xg with modem , but this modem is in router mode not on bridge, because ISP didn't allow me to make the modem in bridge mode. I have fixed ip public and i never did this configuration ( FW XG <---…

We have a problem with migrating our configuration from 17.5 > 18.5 The IP which we used to login through the weblogin has changed from 192.168.85.4 to 192.168 .89.10 The topology looks like this [FW-ASA]-[FW-SPHS] | [USER] So there are three interfaces…

Hi, Please, we are on version 19.5 This doesn't make sense... 1,10,12,2,3....

Hello, I am using a Sophos XG firewall (Version 19.5) and I have 2 WAN interfaces on that (1 active, 1 backup in the WAN link manager). To have the backup line not unused, we use it for SSL VPN (which works without problems). The problem is, that the…

I've got a Sophos XGS116 at a colocation site where we host a bunch of servers for our clients. Currently on SFOS 18.5.2 MR-2-Build380 although I can update it before this changeover if needed for functionality for my request below. Otherwise, I was going…

I have implemented my sophos firewall in bridge mode. I have access to the internal devices, but I cannot access the Internet, what needs to be done to access the Internet? I was trying with a firewall rule but it didn't work.

Hi all, We will replace our ADSL connection by fiber connection So we have Echolife Echolife HG8245H5 /GPON Terminal I need to know how to configure XG Wan port with this " FTTH Modem", i don't know if this terminal is layer 2 or layer 3, or if…

I have installed Sophos XG but when configuring the WAN port, the Firewall does not recognize the network adapter. This a USB to RJ45. Do you know if there a list of network adapters that are compatible with Sophos XG?

Hi, is there an VDSL-Module supporting 250 MBit (from Sophos)? Should be VDSL2-profile 35b .. Thanks,

Hi, When I create a Tunnel interface, I am unable to find the xfrm interface in Network >> Interfaces. I can see the xfrm interface in the CLI though. How do I get to see it in the GUI as I need to use it in a Static Route?

We have a setup with 2 x XG230 configured with HA active / passive with PPPoE on PortA2. Primary Sophos PortA2 connects to ISP Primary router and Aux Sophos PortA2 connects to ISP Aux Router. Port A2 is set as monitored interface. ISP Primary router has…

Hi, I've moved to SFOS 19.5 from UTM9 and having some trouble getting my head around a couple of the concepts. One of them is the Zone/Network/Devices model that SFOS uses; What's the relationship between Zones, and Networks and Devices when creating…

Hi folks, my new RSP has assigned me a new /48 for internal use, how do I renumber all my XG IPv6 addresses? Ian

Hi, I have a XG home lic appliance setup in a virtual machine, and right now I have one nic for one Wan line. I want to add a new NIC so I can have a 2nd Wan line. I have two ISP lines coming in, one from AT&T, other one from Verizon. I found out…

Hello, I have a problem with the backup link in Sophos. We received an LTE link that works and has the correct address set. The "Type" options were set to "Backup" and the "Activate on failure of" rule was set to the main link. The problem is that when…

Hi All I have sophos xg 750 firewall and currently I want to ad one public IP as an alias on the existing Physical port. So on doing that will interrupt the production environment ?

Hi all, User Kyle Sexson had this issue a while ago, too, but there’s no solution in his post - so… I have a set of VLANs running on a bridge interface. This works mostly well, but certain outgoing traffic will show up both on the bridge interface…

Hi, my provider ISP provide me a PPPoE Dual Stack WAN connection. Using a Linux PC is possible to get IPv4 and IPv6 IPs with the same PPPoE connection and works perfectly. In VM XG FW v19.5 Port 1 configuration is WAN with IPv4 PPPoE and works…