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

  • How do I connect a NAS that has Wireguard support to Sophos firewall?

    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…
  • Sophos Firewall: Connect Akamai SIA and Sophos Firewall

    Disclaimer : This information is provided as-is for the benefit of the Community. Please contact Sophos Professional Services if you require assistance with your specific environment. Table of Contents Overview About Akamai SIA Hardware…
  • Sophos to Smooth wall Site to Site VPN connection

    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…
  • VTI SNAT

    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…
  • Standortvernetzung SG310 mit XGS126

    Hallo zusammen, ich möchte unseren Hauptstandort (SG310) mit einer Zweigstelle (XGS126') vernetzen. Leider finde ich hierzu keine brauchbare Anleitung wie ich das ganze konfigurieren muss. Kann mir jemand weiterhelfen? Vielen Dank im voraus! …
  • Site to Site VPN best practice for multi-wan to multi wan

    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…
  • XFRM GATEWAY health check STATUS IS DOWN on both head office and branch office

    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…
  • IPSEC Setup with Zscaler

    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 ?
  • ipsec site-to-site vpn problem with dnat servers

    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…
  • Sophos SG --> XGS IPSec Connection Terminated

    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…
  • VPN IPSEC Site-to-site service times out in IKE phase until reboot

    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…
  • Can't access or ping IPSec Site-to-Site Local to Remote devices

    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)…
  • ipsec sophos utm sophos xgs

    Wir haben/hatten folgendes Problem: 2023:07:03-09:56:28 login-sp pluto[7264]: "S_Speyer-SPBZ-Koblenz"[4] xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:4500 #203026: ignoring informational payload, type PAYLOAD_MALFORMED bei IPSEC zwischen Sophos UTM und XGS. Diese Meldungen…
  • Need to re-input the Pre-shared key to establish Sophos to FortiGate

    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…
  • SOPHOS Purposefully Designs bugs into their Firewalls: Episode 2 – Email Alerts, Green Statuses, and Routes

    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…
  • SOPHOS Purposefully Designs bugs into their Firewalls: Episode 1 - VPN Failover and WAN Interfaces

    I’m documenting my numerous issues with SOPHOS Firewalls so that others can be aware of what they are getting themselves into. Our Background: My business is a long time customer of SOPHOS Firewalls(more than 10 years). We have 18 Firewalls and…
  • ESET endpoint failing to activate

    We have a Sophos firewall xgs 2300 v19.00, the firewall is configured VPN to branches, machine at the branch office are failing to activate ESET endpoint.. at the head office we have a ESET server
  • Odd Behavior with System Generated Traffic over IPSEC

    Hi, Encountering a weird error when trying to attempt using a server for DNS forwarding. We have a few branch offices - each connecting to DC via IPSEC (Connection Type: Site-to-Site / IKEv2) - with the DNS Forwadering Host in the DC. Now here's…
  • ipsec

    Hi, we are using sophos xg firewall we need to create one tunnel between two site both side sophos xg firewall. head office having all server and ad and dc server also. so all user are in branch office access server head office and all internet traffic…
  • UNABLE TO ACCESS SERVERS IN HQ LAN FROM BRANCH OFFICE

    I am able to ping My my gateway from HQ which is my XG Firewall LAN interface ,but i am unable to ping anything in the LAN ,from Branch Router to HQ Router i have a GRE Tunnel,What do i need so that i am able to access LAN resources in Branch
  • RED-Box Tunnel auf Standort XGS zur Site to Site VPN

    Hallo zusammen. Wir haben folgende Herrausforderung: Wir haben bei einem Kunden eine SophosRED SG-20 am Standort 1. Diese soll einen VPN Tunnel zum Standort 2 mit einer Sophos XGS aufbauen. Dies funktioniert auch. Nun kommt die Herausforderung:…
  • IPsec traffic no longer in VPN Zone?

    Ok, i`ve just encountered a strange behaviour/phenomenon with the XGS3100 Firewall we are using: Reacting to a ticket that homeoffice connections via IPsec VPN no longer work, i eventually checked the policy tester to assure myself the FW rules were…
  • Couldnt parse IKE message

    Can anyone tell me how i can stop this from happening? The IP address is from Ukraine and nothing to do with this connection or s2s so I am a bit worried its some sort of attempted hack on port 500. Ive put a block (drop) on the IP incoming but thats…
  • OSPF over IPSec to FortiGate firewall

    Hello All, We have a site that has a FortiGate firewall at the main site and several old watchguard firewalls at remote site. We need to replace one on the firewalls at a remote site, hoping to replace all later, with a new XGS3100. Due to the current…
  • IPsec connection attempt

    Hi to all, I have a lot of connections attempts for the IPsec service: Always from the same two or three IPs. Is there any way to block all for IPsec except the remote IP of the tunnel? Thanks in advance. Best regards.