Dear Support; I am using sophos xg firewall hardware device. I do IPSec configuration with AWS according to their configuration file. And follow Sophos Firewall: AWS VPN Gateway IPSEC Connection I received the notice "IPsec connection could not be…

Hi, i upgraded our XGS2100 from 19.5.2 to 19.5.3 We had a solid VPN Connection to a customer, after upgrading the Connection fails from time to time and VPN Log shows. 2023-08-28 10:11:14 IPSec Deny Received IKE message with invalid SPI (19CBD566…

Why can't you view your site-to-site settings when you have a failover group active. Whenever I'm working with a SOPHOS engineer on an issue, the first thing they want to do is view the VPN settings, but they can't without taking the VPN tunnel offline…

Hey All, , So i had something interesting that got fixed today. On the old XG V17-19 when you create a IPSEC VPN, you didnt need to add a no NAT rule (I could be mistaken if some one can confirm this) But on the XGS, I had setup all the VPNs…

im having the problem with ipsec to a client with cisco firewall. The firewall cannot connect to the remote site but the policies and the satting are the same. This is how my setup is Local Public ip : 154.120.225.2 Local ID : set as the Public ip…

Dear Community, my name is david lorenz and I have a problem at one of our customers. At first I will describe my network situation. They have a HQ and a BO. The HQ has the network: 192.168.2.0/24 (Sophos XG210 with 192.168.2.1) The BO has the…

I have configured an IPSec VPN site-to-site connection between two sites, and after that, the ping traffic was going through between the sites. However, about 10 minutes later, when I pinged again to check, there were always a few initial packets that…

I currently have multiple tunnels on a SFV4C6MSP running on a cloud VM. I use this router to connect multiple IPsec tunnels to different customers. These tunnels are setup as tunnel interfaces. and they will work fine for weeks, or months before one…

Hello, Every 24 hours after the pppoe connection is reconnected, traffic stops passing through the tunnel. My side is configured as a branch, has a dynamic ip address and initiates an ipsec connection. After the wan ip address is changed, the tunnel…

Hello, I have IPSec site to site tunnel and I need to troubleshoot why at some point tunnel goes down and or traffic stops flowing. What means this part of log. At the moment tunnel is up and traffic is flowing. Other side has Fortinet firewall, my…

We are setting up a Site to Site IPSEc VPN between two Sophos XGS 116s. - Is it better to use a pre-shared key or an RSA key? - In the firewall rules, should we put some IPS policy? - In the VPN profile, do we use the IKEv2 protocol? Thanks André…

Dear Sophos Team, can we setup site to site VPN in same subnet?

I am using Unraid NAS on a remote site without public IP. It has support for Wireguard server. I assume there is also a wireguard client. Can this remote NAS connect to my Sophos XG appliance so I can remotely access the remote Unraid NAS? Is this called…

Anyone in the community has configured Sophos to Smoothwall site-to-site vpn? we have issues establishing the VPN connection between two sites The Details for Phase 1 and Phase 2 are all matching we created firewall rules on both ends the status…

Hello, I need help with tunnel configuration. For now I have working ipsec connection to remote 3rd party firewall and sd-wan route to route traffic coming from my network (172.19.19.0/24) to destination ip addresses through tunnel interface. The…

Hi All, I inherited a SITE to SITE configuration that I believe is misconfigured. I am in hopes that I can get help to understand the best way to do this. It doesn’t seem right. Maybe I’m just missing a Failover group on the first site.? 1st XG125…

I have created ipsec tunnel to enable branch office to access head office, tunnel on both offices are 'up' but xfrm gateways on both sides which i have used in sdwan routing are 'down'. but by using diagnostic tool i can ping both xfrm interfaces but…

hi all, we encountered some limitation with sophos fw, under SFOS 19.5 with IPSEC configuration. There is no possibility to set null encryption under ipsec phase 2 part. Is there a way to bypass this limitation ?

Hi, we have an XG135 in the headoffice and an XG87 in the branch office. in the headoffice we have two servers ( mail and something else ) that need to be reachable from the outside and we used the Server Accesss Assistant to create the correpsonding…

hi, we have the problem that an IPSec connection between SG and XGS shows Terminated status several times a day and then the status changes directly back to established and the connection continues to work without problems. What settings or logs should…

Hello, We have the following scenario: Two Sophos XG310 with active-passive high availability enabled. Since we configure high availability from time to time, the site-to-site ipsec VPN service just stops working, 80% of our tunnels are disconnected…

Hi, I'm trying to enable an IPSec Site-to-Site connection with a remote location but have a few problems on the route side Here's my config : Sophos XG - SFOS 19.5.2 MR-2-Build624 Sophos LAN on 172.16.16.x (set as LAN in Hosts and services)…

Hello, I got a IPSEC VPN from my sophos xg to remote firewall. Many subnet from my side are nated dynamiclaly with 172.30.10.0/24 to reach different subnet on the other side. Like (192.168.1.0/24 , 192.168.2.0/24 ...are nated with 172.30.10.0/24…

We had a fortigate (initiator) to sophos (respond) site to site vpn via IPsec, and we configure our fortigate firewalls via fortimanager script. The issue is every time a branch/s (Fortigate) got disconnected, we are required to re-input the pre-shared…

I’m documenting my numerous issues with SOPHOS Firewalls so that others can be aware of what they are getting themselves into. Episode #1 community.sophos.com/.../sophos-purposefully-designs-bugs-into-their-firewalls-episode-1---vpn-failover-and…