Hi, I am trying to get QAT support information on the current XG Home v21. The last document that mentioned QAT was version 18. Is QAT still supported? If so, what can be offloaded to it?

So -- in the olden days we could take old retired SG appliances, wipe the drive (delete partitions with Gparted, etc.), and load SFOS Home on them -- we had engineers that would run them at home for training, and to test bleeding-edge releases, etc. Apparently…

Hello, cant install the XG Home Firewall on my HP ProDesk 400 G4. I dont get my boot stick runinng, it always only shows him unter UEFI. Legacy is enabled and with other Sticks (like gparted) i can boot in legacy but the Sophos Stick is only visible…

Hi, I am looking to run sophos xg home in my homelab but I am struggling to find decent hardware. I have a 1gbps connection at home. Unfortunately official sophos hardware is hard to get where I live. Would protectli be sufficient? If so which model?…

I made already a post about the 10G nic i bulid into which is not working as it should. So i thought I'd use the 2 bulit in SFP ports. I connected a cable to the SFP+ from my switch and nothing. I thought maybe the could not communicate so I connected…

I spent the last 45 minutes trying to get through to the support portal and actually submit a support question to the official support, but obviously failed due to not being able to register on the support portal since I have no current relationship to…

Hi, I could not find any information about the CPU to run Sophos Home Firewall v20. All I know is that FW v20 only can run on Intel CPUs and supports 4 cores. Given that I have an old Intel Core2 Quad 8XXX, which does not supports Intel AES instruction…

Hello everyone, I am about to install Sophos Firewall Home Edition v19.5 on the HP T730 ThinClient barebone x86 desktop installed with a 4-port FastLinQ QL41134HLRJ 10Gbe NIC. The NIC sports a Cavium DPDK high-speed packet processing engine. As handling…

Hi, Summer time and I need to monitor the Sophos Home firewall mounted on Protectli. In advances shell sensors command doesn’t work and I cannot find any way to monitor it through api or whatever mode. I need to monitor the temperature please could…

Hello All, I am a newbee to XG, but have been using UTM9 for some years. In UTM9, I could see a number of attacks being dropped every day. After I changed to XG (version SFVH [SFOS 20.0.0 GA-Build222]) I do no longer see any attacks. I have activated…

Hi all. I have been trying to install sophos xg home on my router and I cannot get past the firmware install. The install fails on "installing firmware64298 blocks cat: can't open /etc/versions: no such file or directoy this appliance does not satisfy…

Hi everyone, I am currently using a mini PC, with an Intel Atom D525 1.8 GHz CPU, 4GB RAM, and a 32GB mSATA SSD, and sophos firewall home edition version 20 I am experiencing slow access to the web interface, and I am planning to buy another mini…

Is it possible to run Sophos Home Edition on virtual machine in a Synlogy NAS? or it much better to run it bare metal on an old Intel based machine? I have a Synloogy NAS running in my home and if thats possible it would be great. Thanks in…

Hello all, 1.) I've heard some rumors that sophos firewall home edition will be end of life at some point in that not too distant future, is there any truth to this? 2.) Are there any fanless mini multi NIC pcs that have 2.5gbe that the sophos utm…

Hi, I'm new to the Sophos Firewall, but not firewall products in general. I've been running pfsense/opnsense for years, and thought I might give it a try. I can get it to boot just fine in a Proxmox VM, but on dedicated hardware it seems to be problematic…

I see from searching it, Sophos does not support i225v. But what about i226-V 2.5G ports? Also, I have a home-office, would Sophos Firewall Home (installed on a hardware device) be enough security for my home-office network? I'm the only employee /…

Quick question: Do you have to have Sophos Hardware to make VLAN work in the firewall software? I'm using a mini pc running Sophos Firewall V20 and it appears when I set up a VLAN, it doesn't work. Followed the directions on how to create a VLAN but…

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…

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…

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…