Important note about SSL VPN compatibility for 20.0 MR1 with EoL SFOS versions and UTM9 OS. Learn more in the release notes.

  • how to configure an IPsec VPN failover with 2 gateways on each end

    Help me create an IPSEC failover for a headquarters and branch office with 2 gateways each. I would like to create a high availability scenario, as the links in both locations fluctuate a lot. I thought about doing it like this: The Branch initiates…
  • Recommendations for Site2Site TunnelAll VPN

    We will have a special deployment at one customer soon. The customer has serveral branch offices where Sophos XGS 136 will be the local gateway for 5-6 subnets for each branch office. The BO firewalls will only have base subscriptions and only some…
  • VPN - SD-WAN Connection Group to Azure.

    I've built out in the SD-WAN connection group. XGS116 firewall at my remote home office is behind DHCP public IP. Virtual firewall in Azure is behind Azure's NAT. It doesn't seem like an SD-WAN Connection group can handle this as it configures the Gateway…
  • SD wan Connection Group vs Site to Site VPN

    Good Day Members, I Trust you are well. We currently have 5 sites with site to site SSL VPN configured. We are investigating SD-WAN connection Group in Sophos Central. This will assist us in setting a couple defaults policies that that would be the same…
  • GRE tunnel local gateway config error

    Hi all, I got the following error when I tried to configure GRE tunnel on my Sophos FW (v19.5, home). console> system gre tunnel add name GRE1 local-gw Port1 % Error: Unknown Parameter 'Port1' The WAN port I am trying to configure GRE is Port1,…
  • IPSec S2S Policy Based VPN (btw. XG and OPNSense) - Routing Problems

    Dear Community, we have a customer with a XG Firewall in HQ and OPNSense in BA. Them are connected with IPSec PB S2S VPN. There is a older solved Case for more informations: https://community.sophos.com/sophos-xg-firewall/f/discussions/141557/need…
  • Two IKE VPN configurations on one firewall

    Good day together I normally look after Zyxel firewalls, but I was now allowed to take over a Sophos customer from a former colleague. I would like to switch this customer from IKEv1 to IKEv2, but I don't want to make a hard switch. So that the customer…
  • Hide NAT

    Hi everyone, we have an existing VPN Connection: local subnet: 172.25.169.144/28 remote subnet: 172.25.169.104/29 no we have to translate every connection with destination 172.25.169.108 to our source ip 172.25.169.145. i already tried…
  • Site to Site XGS-126 to UniFi USG-Pro-4 not routing

    The IPSec tunnel comes up and is seen on both ends but not able to route traffic between the two. Tried to setup static routes, no change. What do I need to set on both ends to get the traffic to flow ??
  • Remote Access VPN (SSL) over IPSec

    Hi all, i have the following issue and hope that someone can give me a hint or two: We're using a remote access connection (SSL VPN) to our Sophos XG. On the Sophos XG, we have an IPSec tunnel to another router (pfsense). Both work great. Now, we…
  • Relay traffic from branch office site-to-site to remote site through head office

    Good Day, We have four site-to-site VPNs setup and working. Site A (Head Office) Site B (Branch Office 1) Site C (Branch office 2) Site D (External party (Fortinet) site) Site A (Head Office) connects to Site D (external party) to allows…
  • Routing through an IPSec VPN

    Hi, First of all, I tried to find existing discussions about the issue i'm facing but i'm not 100% sure I've searched/used the right keywords. Let me explain: I have 3 sites (let's call those SS, RR and DC). SS subnet is: 172.42.23.0/24 RR s…
  • XGS to SG UTM IPSec VPN not reconnecting, staying in disconnected state forever (IKEv1)

    IPSec Site-2-Site VPN from initiator XGS to receiver SG firewall. the XGS is on v19.5.3 IKEv1 (caused by SG capabilities) Whenever someone rebooted the ISP router on the XGS site, the XGS will not re-initiate the connection and sits there disconnected…
  • XG310v3 HA Active/Standby site-to-site VPN connections, 19.5.3. Unable to edit, delete or change status.

    Figured as since I cannot find anyone else experiencing this issue, wanted to highlight this here if it helps someone else or if Sophos want to investigate themselves. FW type, config and version in subject. TLDR: Disable HA if you experience issues with…
  • Sophos XG behind Fortigate firewall

    Dear Support, we set up a Fortigate firewall 200F at our edge and replaced the Sophos XG 210 we previously used. However, I have a remote site connected via RED devices, I decided to just continue using the RED device and move the Sophos XG behind the…
  • Sophos S2S ipsec -XGS107(branchOffice) <>XG330(HeadOffice)

    Hello, I have two sophos: - XGS107 as branchOffice (19.5.3) - XG330 as HeadOffice (19.5.2) I am experiencing strange behavior on "route-base" ipsec tunnel. Tunnel status on both sites is down but on HeadOffice i can see that connectio is UP. HeadOffice…
  • NAT multiple networks in an Ipsec tunnel

    Hello everyone, I have an IPsec connection to our holding with NAT, the fake local network is provided to us by the holding and can only be one. The problem is that I also have to convey other secondary networks to the tunnel, so I was thinking of doing…
  • IPSEC Site-to-Site - Multiple Local Subnets

    We have an XGS 2100 with an IKE2 IPSEC Site-to-Site connection to Azure. When initiating the connection, the "Flat LAN" subnet mounts but the various VLAN's bound to the "flat LAN" don't come up. The VLAN's are used for SIP phones and WiFi access…
  • dual redundant vpn tunnels from branch office to HQ office

    I spent some time on research here and I wasn't able to find something like How-To, KB artice covering this scenario where we may have Sophos LTE modem on branch office or Teltonika modem attached to port. We do local break out for internet services…
  • Route Site-to-Site VPN over different ISP

    Good day, I've been struggling with this issue here for quite some time. We have a Site-to-Site VPN setup to external company with NATed ranges. Have setup the firewall to fail-over to backup ISP should the primary ISP fail. Trying tested it multiple…
  • IPSec traffic not tunneled

    Hi, there is a IPSec tunnel not tunneling traffic to remote site. Traffic from remote site to my site is sent trough tunnel as expected, but traffic to remote site is being nated and sent trough WAN interface. Remote site has to use my internet…
  • Activate and deactivate IPsec connection via CLI

    Hi, i read this post RE: Activate and deactivate IPsec connection via CLI It's what i need, but into Api documentation i can't see anything about this command, could you send me a documentation on info about this command? Thanks
  • Check Ipsec Vpn Status by Command Cli

    HI, I would need to retrieve the following information from the XG 135 Firewall via script: - VPN status node by node and child by child - restart the VPN if phase2 or phase1 is down Can you help me retrieve this information via commands? Thank you
  • LLMNR disabled - DNS resolution no longer works over VPN

    Hello all, We have deactivated LLMNR via GPO. After that we had the problem that users who work via VPN have more DNS problems. No problems could be found in the internal network. In 90% of the cases, internal resources can no longer be resolved.…
  • Sophos Connect VPN client not connecting to remote Site-to-Site server

    Good day, Wonder if anyone can help me. Have a site-to-site tunnel with a remote server. The remote server is connected through a site-to-site tunnel to a different company so I don't have control on the remote side network. Now I am trying to get…