v18 was supposed to introduce a new core. Anyone noticed anything different regarding this ?

XG v18 changes many parts of what is core to the firewall. The data-plane change in itself is a large under taking - from a kernel upgrade to the new DAQ structure. The UI hasn't changed much, however, the core packet processing does.

Xstream SSL Inspection, Deep packet inspection (DPI) Engine, FastPath offloading, improved enterprise NAT engine, Threat intelligence analysis, Proxy-less malware scanning and web filtering - are a few example of the foundational improvements with the new Xstream architecture.

To find out more -

we would love it if you could join us for a special community webcast happening on Thursday, November 14.

We will be looking into some of the top industry problems that XG Firewall v18 is solving, as well as reviewing some of the key innovations in this release and the new features that you requested. Our product team experts will also be there to answer your questions live.

Here: community.sophos.com/.../webcast-firewall-v18-overview-and-live-q-a-with-the-xg-product-team---november-14-11am-est

Hello,

hopefiully this webcast will not be marketing blabla, instead we would expect real "Tacheles" .

To summarize the infos I got from this EAP so far: I am shocked how immature SFOS and the XG platform obviously still is.

If I am asked by a customer: "Shall I go with SG or with XG?" I couldn't answer that.

I will stick witrh the SG in our production scenarios as long as it is supported and stable.

UNTIL it is proved, that XG is a REAL and STABLE alternative, which I on't see at the moment.

BTW: don't get me wrong: I would like to switch to XG, but I am reluctant when it comes to stability and awful support experience.

We have several XG machines running on 17.x, but these are small setups, nothing critical and our own inhouse lab.

Just my 2 cents.

Regards from Germany,

Philipp

Hello,

hopefiully this webcast will not be marketing blabla, instead we would expect real "Tacheles" .

To summarize the infos I got from this EAP so far: I am shocked how immature SFOS and the XG platform obviously still is.

If I am asked by a customer: "Shall I go with SG or with XG?" I couldn't answer that.

I will stick witrh the SG in our production scenarios as long as it is supported and stable.

UNTIL it is proved, that XG is a REAL and STABLE alternative, which I on't see at the moment.

BTW: don't get me wrong: I would like to switch to XG, but I am reluctant when it comes to stability and awful support experience.

We have several XG machines running on 17.x, but these are small setups, nothing critical and our own inhouse lab.

Just my 2 cents.

Regards from Germany,

Philipp