I’m looking for some advice for Hardware for the Sophos Firewall Home Edition. I’m not sure if I should use a vm or bare-metal installation. When I was looking for some hardware, I found HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus v2 with an Intel Pentium…

NIC not seen in console. Is there a way to get drivers for this? It shows up in BIOS of the server etc. But unable to configure/add in the main interfaces

Hi, I,m going to install Sophos XG home edition to a Protectli vp2420, I know the 4 core and 6GB ram limitation but with 300mb/s internet bandwidth it should be enough. It would be possible to install Sophos in Raid 1 if I provide Protectli with 2…

Hi everyone I installed my Sophos Home on a Mini-PC but it does not shows my NICs up. specs Intel Celeron J4125 8 GB RAM 256 GB SSD 4x 2.5 GBps LAN (i226-V) Any idea what can solve my problem? Thx

Hi, I'm not sure if I have just locked myself out of using XG home firewaill because of an unexpected BIOS compatibility issue. My ancient PC (Pentium III) mobo died. It was running XG 19.x. Researching for microPC's (ServeTheHome, Tom's Hardware…

Does the newly released SFOS v20 support newer fanless PCs containing the intel i225 ethernet chips, WITHOUT resorting to a VM? I suppose this is a resurrection of the question that was answered in the negative for v. 19.x last year in Does Sophos XG…

hi I have a Cyberoam CR100ing firewall (1.6.3 MR-4) in my hands that I got from my previous job and I plan to install the new Sophos XG home edition OS on it since it is the most compatible with the hardware today. What happens is that the Cyberoam cr100ing…

Dear Community Member, during the task to refresh our firewall Hardware, we try to install SW-19.5.3_MR-3-652.iso on Dell PowerEdge R350 but it fails, mount iso over idrac stuck at ISO boot without any output. Secound try was to make USB Boot Stick…

I have some questions regarding deploying the Sophos Firewall Home Edition. Does anyone have any recommendations on hardware to use and to avoid? I would like to look into something small and compact if possible. A plus if it's easily mountable…

Hi Everyone in the Sophos Community. I downloaded the ISO for the Sophos Firewall Home Edition-Free Version and used Rufus to burn it to a flash drive. I am trying to install it on my Dell Opiplex 9010 Desktop PC but when I boot to the flash drive it…

Hello, I am trying to install sophos for home use on my old Lenovo 720q on nvme and after installation is not booting Bios is in Legacy, nvme first to boot. My Hardware: CPU i3 Nvme 512gb 8 GB ram(i can boost to 32gb if needed additional…

I recently purchased a server to use with Sophos XG Home Edition. It's a Supermicro SuperServer 5019S-W4TR. Motherboard is an X11SSW-4TF. I also bought a Lenovo Intel P4511 1TB M.2 NVMe for use as the boot/system drive onto which I was going to install…

My friend decided to run FW Home on my recommendation, but he's having trouble and I took the machine home to troubleshoot. Five days later, I still haven't found the issue. SFVH (SFOS 19.5.2 MR-2-Build624) Lenovo ThinkCentre SFF PC Intel Core i3…

I use a ZBOX CI 323 with XG 17.5, which works flawlessly, but I can't upgrade to the newer 18.0, since this version will not recognize the second LAN port on the device, which is used for WAN access. Using a USB LAN adapter also won't work. Anyone have…

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

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…