I have been running SFOS on fanless i7 hardware with spinning disk for a year or so .. My hardware supports NVME drives ... is it possible to install this on an NVME drive yet so that I can remove the old spinning drive from the hardware? I got past the…

Hi, I'm running a SG230 with Sophos Firewall OS for a home setup and I am very pleased with the functionality. Unfortunately I do not have a lot of space at home and am running this machine in a switch rack located near my desktop PC. I think…

I'm sure this question gets beat into the ground often. I know the XG home edition has hardware limitations but when I tried using v18 last year I ran into an oddity with devices not getting online. As soon as I swapped back to my other firewall they…

Hello, I'm trying my best to boot the installer of Sophos XG Home Edition version SW-19.5.0_GA-197 .iso from a 8GB USB 2.0 stick on my Intel i3-1115G4 CPU with 8 GB RAM but can't seem to find a way to properly boot the Installer I tried Etcher on…

hello! I ve recently found about sophos xg (which will solve a problem with my network). Someone said it will block all ads on my network (which is the main issue) and proposed to run it on a "standalone" pc. Because I m really not sure yet, will it run…

hi there, i am trying to install a sophos home edition on a HP core i3 desktop machine, i used rufus to burn the img, everytime i turn on the computer, i see a grub rescue> any support is appreciated

Can anyone help me get my site to site up between a XGS116 and a Cisco ASA5506. I am pretty sure its an issue with phase 2 as I can see the vpn on the cisco asdm vpn monitoring but it looks like its showing phase 1 but not phase 2. Also the sophos logs…

I switched from UTM 9.x to the (for me) new XG Home. Its an old PC working under UTM perfect with - 2x 1port 1Gb Cards (cant remember from which company, nothing on the cards) - 1x 4port 1Gb Card HP NC364T Now, after installing XG Home, the boot…

Hi everyone, Searching on community about CPUs for XG Home I only found topics about older CPUs suggestions. Here's my home network details and goals with XG Home: Current network: Internet Downlink/Uplink: 700/350Mbps (monthly average internet…

Hi all, I just purchased a new piece of hardware to replace my dying XG Home box. I downloaded the latest SW-19.0.1_MR-1-365 and burned to USB with RUFUS. I can't seem to boot from it, it just hangs. The device in question is here: https://www…

Hello Everyone, I will use Sophos XG Home and I have server Dell r720 XD with dual interfaces each interface have 4 ports and total 8 ports I wanna ask if I install Sophos XG Home and put port for Lan and 7 for Wan it will work or not Thanks for …

Hi there, Is it possible (out-of-the-box) supported to install Sophos XG Home on the desktop appliance dec840 selled by deciso (OPNsense)? It‘s an AMD Epyc Architecture which is also part of some XG appliances, right? It would give CPU power and fiber…

I've seen topics about the single arm firewall setup..... I'm trying to make something like this work. I do have L2/L3 Cisco switches I am using which I could setup a "transfer switch" type setup although I am unsure of how this would work with the sophos…

What is hardware requirements for link 300/50 and second device for 1000/300 link? Its sophos home firewall its right for this ? Running ids/ids , VPN

Update (31/01/2023) Back to the drawing board. This has broken again. I have checked the settings in the Cloud Key are set as described below and nothing has changed. My device is set to automatic updates and unfortunatly I didn't record the firmware…

Playing with the Netgear M5 Mobile router in combination with Sophos XGS for a couple of days. Anyone using a Netgear Mx router in combination with the Sophos XGS? Which settings should I apply in the router. --- John

HI there, I seem to be finding competing information about this online. I am looking to purchase hardware for a new router, using Sophos XG 19 Home Edition. I'm looking at a device with 4 2.5Gg ports. It has an Intel Celeron J4125 2,0 GHz-2,70 GHz…

Hello - I know that the Home Version is limited to 4 cores and 6 GB of RAM - is there a license i can purchase that will allow for more memory and Cores? The intrusion Detection is eating these resources and i would like to increase them. Thanks

I am trying to find the free version (capped at 4 cores, 6GB RAM) of Sophos Firewall. Have tried this https://www.sophos.com/en-us/free-tools/sophos-xg-firewall-home-edition#main-content but when I click the link I am taken here: https://www.sophos…

Good Morning all, I've been running a UTM for a few years now and would now like to gradually switch to SFOS. In order not to flatten my "productive" firewall at home, I wanted to buy a "mini-PC" or something similar, which I can later use as a firewall…

Hello folks, I have used Sophos Firewall home in the past with ESXI and was so happy about that got a machine to be used as router. I performed the installation via UEFI on a 256gb nvme drive and everything went well. When I rebooted the PC, the…

Hi all, I am a home user have been a user of Opnsense for a few years but recently removed this setup as it was constantly failing to reroute ipv6 when a connection dropped and was restarted which required 95% of the time to reboot the whole unit. …

Hi community, I bought a nice little hardware with Intel i5 11. generation and two NIC's. My problem is that there is no way to install the XG home on it I tried so much: - booting from different sticks : Build by Rufus (also DD mode), Win32 Disk…

Hi, I have bought a micro-pc with Intel hardware, to migrate my firewall in al older pc (2007) to it. I have intall the 19.0 371 release, everything goes ok, until first boot. It has not detect any interface and is on safe mode. I boot a linux image to…

Hello to the Sophos community ! Just getting onboard today and I would like to install Sophos Firewall Home edition on a laptop which has 2 hard drives (one SSD, one HDD). I read that Sophos is wiping and taking a full disk, but wondering if it is…