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Sophos Firewall Home

Erick Jan

Sophos Firewall Home is a free, non-commercial Software version of Sophos Firewall for Home, Laboratory, and educational use. It has the same features as Sophos Firewall Appliances.

Consolidation of answers to frequently asked questions in the community.

Note: As a Home user can't create a ticket to support, kindly use the Sophos community for your queries. 

Limitations

Home Edition is limited to the following

  • 4 cores
  • 6GB RAM

Anything more than the above won’t be utilized.

  • No Built-in WIFI Access Point
  • For Sophos Firewall devices, the Inbuilt wireless function isn’t supported by the home user license
  • Does not support UEFI Bios
  • No Support from the Sophos Technical Team

www.sophos.com/.../sophos-xg-firewall-home-edition

Compliance

To download Sophos Firewall Home, complete a short compliance form (including your first name, last name, and email address).

To expedite the compliance process, which is typically completed instantly, provide accurate information and avoid obfuscating your IP address.

If the issue persists, please contact our customer care team only via our hotline so they can assist you with compliance.

Note: Sophos Support and Sophos Home Support won't be able to assist you with the compliance.

Central Management

  • Home users can only store seven days of Report Data and can’t import/Export

Hardware Requirements

  • Intel Compatible Computer with Dual NIC
  • Quad-Core
  • 6GB of Ram
  • 120 GB of Disk
  • Minimum of two (2) NICs for LAN & WAN and not intel i219 /i225 series NICs
  • Bios Set to Legacy bios (CSM)

Links & Guides

Where to Download

Creating a bootable

Installation Guide

Sophos Firewall: Best practices

SFP Compatibility List

Available interface speed

  • 10 Mbps - Full duplex
  • 10 Mbps - Half duplex
  • 100 Mbps - Full duplex
  • 100 Mbps - Half duplex
  • 1000 Mbps - Full duplex
  • 1000 Mbps - Half duplex

Backup Compatibility 

Queries & Known Issues

Installation

Can I install my License

For 3rd-Party Hardware

  • Yes, you can install a Home or Business license
  • Any Version

For Sophos Firewall hardware(SG & XG) but NOT "XGS"

  • Yes, however, you must either replace or reformat the disk.
  • Any Version

ISO difference

  • HW - Dedicated hardware for Firewall models
  • SW - Any platform such as simulators, hyper V, Virtual box, VMWare, and so on

Note: For XGS hardware, this won’t install/run/work, even with replacing the SSD

Can I install v19.5 & V20 Firmware

  • Yes, you can install any version

Management

Can’t access GUI

  • Check NIC Port Assignment for LAN & WAN (randomize)

Can I connect an access point controller

  • Yes, but it’ll need to be set up as LAN Zone and not Wireless

License/Registration/Central

Can I transfer my Sophos Home License 

  • Unfortunately, no. As a workaround, kindly get a new Serial number and restore/backup.

How can I change the Device Registration Details?

  • For Sophos Firewall Home users, it isn’t possible to change.

Can I manage my Sophos Firewall Home in Sophos Central?

  • Yes, It is manageable in Central

Can I change from Free to Business and vice versa?

  • No, You can't change from Business to Home or vice versa. You have to reinstall the firewall. 

Do I need to claim/register my Sophos Firewall Home in Sophos Central using the serial number?

  • No, you don’t need to claim/register this serial number for Sophos Central. 

Can I register my Firewall Home to Sophos Central

  • Yes, Register using the Firewall directly to Sophos Central.

Is the trial version equivalent to Sophos Firewall Home?

  • No, If you start a Trial in the installation process, this will start a Sophos SFOS Business version.

External Resources



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  • Hi Everyone. Anyone have any clue why I cant get this going on a TINY PC that only allows UEFI. I have tried USB and CD Install. i tried on a dell optiplex as well that had different issues. the Tiny PC ran PFSense and others for years but need Sophos for LAB Purpose so I dont break anything at work. 

    The CD Loads, I select sophos and then the screen just sits at blank until the end of time, i left it hours.

    I finally got it going on a Spare HP DL360 G9 but it has fans and is to loud sometimes.

    Any Suggestions?

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  • Hi Everyone. Anyone have any clue why I cant get this going on a TINY PC that only allows UEFI. I have tried USB and CD Install. i tried on a dell optiplex as well that had different issues. the Tiny PC ran PFSense and others for years but need Sophos for LAB Purpose so I dont break anything at work. 

    The CD Loads, I select sophos and then the screen just sits at blank until the end of time, i left it hours.

    I finally got it going on a Spare HP DL360 G9 but it has fans and is to loud sometimes.

    Any Suggestions?

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  • in reply to Danijel Micic

    Easiest way is to virtualize It, either with ESXi or Proxmox.

    Sophos Firewall doesn't support boot over UEFI only, and It doesn't have a lot of support for new NIC's chipset.

    If a post solves your question use the 'Verify Answer' button.

    Ryzen 5600U + I226-V (KVM) v21 GA @ Home

    Sophos ZTNA (KVM) @ Home

  • in reply to Danijel Micic

    Sophos Home does not support UEFI yet. You would have to enable CSM mode in the BIOS if your motherboard supports it. But it probably still won't work.

    (I have attempted an install the firewall on an HP Prodesk. Even with CSM enabled the firewall won't install, (I suspected the firewall didn't support the hardware)

    You need to virtualize the SFOS firewall using Proxmox/ESXi/KVM on a Linux distro or XEN, to get SFOS to work on UEFI bioses. 

    If you're ready to virtualize it, look up the video on Youtube from Sophos employee Christian Lempa, called 

    "Protect your home network! // Sophos XG Firewall on Proxmox Walkthrough"

    He does a full installation of Sophos on Proxmox which is also free. For security I recommend installing a desktop environment on Proxmox and only allowing logons/administration of the VM from the host PC (localhost: 127.0.0.1)

  • in reply to Prism

    Thank you for the info. would be nice if they mentioned it somewhere and at this rate this product will be phased out when everything is EFI only. I have a device for this purpose and didn't want to virtualize. I prefer it to be a single device as I change my virtual setup all the time. Thank you for the information and you have a Great Day/Weekend

  • in reply to Danijel Micic

    If you need to run the firewall bare metal, look into one of the fanless Qotom firewall devices on Amazon/Ali express that use the Intel i211 network chipset.

    Or even a used Sophos SG/XG firewall appliance off eBay such as the SG/XG 125/135

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