• Loopback for Firewall in LAN (behind Home Router)

    kdoberitz
    kdoberitz
    Hi Sophos Community After a lot of trial and error I'm hoping you can help me finding a solution to my scenario: In my home setup I have my wan-interface of the sophos in a transit network. My ISP router forwards any traffic to the sophos. Now…
    • 29 days ago
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  • QoS issues (again)

    ChriZathens
    ChriZathens
    .Hello @all! So I have asked in the past a few questions about QoS, but I had a more complicated setup with two WANs and additionally the second was a bonding between an ADSL line and a 4G+ sim card, which was nor really steady regarding the bandwidth…
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    • 1 month ago
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  • How to configure a bridge?

    albert cutrona
    albert cutrona
    Hello!! In my home network, I have a mini PC with two ports running Proxmox and a virtualized Sophos Firewall Home Edition. I have purchased a mini PC with four ports to replace the one I currently have. While I wait for it to arrive, I decided to…
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    • 1 month ago
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  • Unable to use the static IP in Sophos bridge mode

    Anh Dung Nguyen
    Anh Dung Nguyen
    Hello everyone, I’ve included my home network diagram and Sophos configuration below. After setting up Sophos Home (on ESXi) in bridge mode with VLANs, I assigned a static IP address of 192.168.11.10 to the bridge port. However, this IP address cannot…
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    • 2 months ago
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  • New Setup Issues (Fresh Install)

    Bossmanuk
    Bossmanuk
    Hello Everyone, I am a new user of Sophos Firewall for Home, unfortunately I am encountering a few issues. I have managed to get an internet connection on it but I am unable to register it and getting the following error - Can't connect to the registration…
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    • 2 months ago
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  • Integrate synthetic allowlist in a rule without WAF

    Oliver Schnürer
    Oliver Schnürer
    Dear community, As a firewall noob I am wondering how to integrate a dynamically changing list of IPs into an allowlist for a specific firewall rule. As a home user I unfortunately have no access to the "Web protection subscription", only "Base Firewall…
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    • 3 months ago
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  • Converting iptables to NAT rule

    woter324
    woter324
    Hi, I have been given an iptables command and I would like to create the same rule on my XG. Could anyone confirm if I have "translated" the rule correctly, please? iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -s 10.100.20.19 -d www.riscocloud.com -p tcp --dport…
    • 4 months ago
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  • Firewall rules and policy

    Charlie Dodd
    Charlie Dodd
    Hi, I am wanting to block the IOT network (xxx.xxx.5.xx/24) from pinging the default gateway of other networks so created a firewall rule to do so however when testing, devices in the IOT network are still able to ping the default gateway of other networks…
    • 5 months ago
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  • Facebook Messenger End to End Encryption not sending messages behind Sophos XG Firewall

    John Novie Cabellon
    John Novie Cabellon
    Does anyone experienced the same thing? Messenger app chats with End to End Encryption enabled cannot send messages behind Sophos XG Firewall. There's also a lot of ISAKMP VPN hits in the traffic insights recently. I'm also thinking my XG instance is…
    • 6 months ago
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  • Disallow some clients on LAN to use backup gateways

    Alejandro Sanchez
    Alejandro Sanchez
    Hello everyone. I am running Sophos Firewall SFVH (SFOS 19.5.3 MR-3-Build652) I have a primary fiber internet connection and a 4G connection as a backup gateway. This is set to enable when the primary connection fails. I want to disallow Internet…
    • 8 months ago
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  • DNS NAT Rule slowing down browsing and load-times from websites

    nd
    nd
    Hello all, I have a specific NAT question and problem, the reason would be, that am not a native or excellent networking guy... so learning by doing and reading specific when needed. Maybe someone could help me. In my home network I use a XG as…
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    • 10 months ago
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  • Port forward keeps failing after sometime

    Ahmed Mohsen
    Ahmed Mohsen
    I've created a firewall rule & NAT rule to forward port 5555 to my local server ssh server and it was working perfectly -for sometime- but it keeps failing now and i can't access, after scanning port it keeps saying that it's closed? I recreated the…
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    • 10 months ago
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  • Problem with download speed

    lucky
    lucky
    Hey, I have Sophos Firewall for Home installed on my proxmox. I have a 500Mb/s download and 100Mb/s upload connection. Unfortunately when downloading anything from the internet the maximum speed I can download at is 20MB/s it gets to that 20 and is unable…
    • 11 months ago
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  • Connection between Unifi Dream Machine and Sophos XG Home for dynamic traffic filtering.

    Adam Czyżewski
    Adam Czyżewski
    Hi All, I would like to connect my Unifi Dream Machina Pro (UDMP) router to Sophos XG Home (SFOS 19.5.3 MR-3) installed on a separate computer with two LAN ports. What I want to do is not obvious and I don't know if it's even possible. In general, the…
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    • 11 months ago
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  • QoS question

    ChriZathens
    ChriZathens
    Hello guys! I attempted to mess around with Traffic shaping settings and something seems off. Perhaps I am misunderstanding something so I thought I should ask For starters my internet connection is slow. I actually have two internet lines, one goes…
    • over 1 year ago
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  • Route all Netflix traffic through VPN

    Daniel Cook2
    Daniel Cook2
    Hello, Hoping I can get some help - tried searching but its still not 100% clear to me so hopefully someone can provide some insight. LAN > multiple ports , 1 feeding a linux box which has my server that handles things like plex etc AP device > feeds…
    • over 1 year ago
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  • Multiple WAN-Ports / Gateways - Is this Scenario possible? And: Good learning Ressources for "Beginners" (Home)?

    Fina Reimen
    Fina Reimen
    Hello there! I am a Sophos Home License user and after years with the Sophos UTM, I want to try using the "Sophos Firewall" at home now. So the first question is: Can anyone recommend good learning ressources for (private) persons, who used the UTM…
    • over 1 year ago
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  • Sophos XG Firewall New Deployment - No Internet Access

    mr rosh
    mr rosh
    I have a new deployment for sop[hos xg firewall on a 1ru appliance server. I can't seem to get the internet on the Sophos firewall. effectively I need the firewall to act as local router, issue dhcp on local subnet and be able to block various outbound…
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    • over 1 year ago
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  • Minecraft Server Authentication Servers are Down

    Caleb Sjostedt
    Caleb Sjostedt
    Hi all, I've been having an issue with my Minecraft server I host since switching over to Sophos. The Minecraft server functions normally with DNAT and the server is accessible from outside, except for this error below. Here are my FW/NAT rules…
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    • over 1 year ago
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  • Sophos XG Home - Services and users in rules greyed out

    Theldron
    Theldron
    Hello, hope you are well. I know I have probably missed something, but I wanted to create a rule as I was troubleshooting a web application issue (Sky GO App), but when I went to create the rule, I noticed a lot of rule entities and services were greyed…
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    • over 1 year ago
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  • Force DNS to LAN PiHole XG Home 19

    joe shellen
    joe shellen
    I had this working in Untangle for years, then switched to OPNsense for a few weeks and got it working, now I've decided to go with Sophos but I'm stuck. (Loving Sophos XG, btw.) I have two PiHoles running on my LAN and want to force/redirect all…
    • over 1 year ago
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  • How to allow IP list to access internet

    Sophosness
    Sophosness
    Hi, would appreciate some help. I assign IP addresses to all devices at home. I would like to allow a list of IP hosts on LAN to be able to access the internet WAN at any time. I want to be able to easily add or delete IP addresses from this list. So…
    • over 2 years ago
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  • SOPHOS XG Home - Internet Connection loss

    Simax
    Simax
    Hi Everybody, I'am using the following configuration: HYPERVISOR-Hardware: LENOVO THINKCENTRE M70Q i5-10400T 256 GB SSD 16 GB RAM 1 LAN integrated LAN-Port 1 UGREEN USB 3.0 Nics (ax88179_178a 2-1:1.0) HYPERVISOR-Software: Proxmox…
    • over 2 years ago
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  • Scheduled time based internet access control

    Distel HU
    Distel HU
    Hello everyone. I just installed Intel PC base Sophos XG home firewall in connexion with ASUS routeur as Access point, to control the web/app contents and internet access time of my kids. However I can't figure out why the scheduled time based firewall…
    • over 2 years ago
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  • [Sophos XG Home (Software)] Invalid TCP state

    DangoPC
    DangoPC
    I am swapping my pfSense with Sophos XG Home for lab testing. I am encountering an issue where the connection to my TrueNAS SCALE shows "invalid TCP state" in the firewall log. Ping works, but not HTTP/S and SMB. The firewall rule is set to All-ALL, with…
    • over 2 years ago
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