• Ring topology using Sophos Firewall

    Mayuresh Bhagwat
    Mayuresh Bhagwat
    I have a customer who has 4 Sophos Switches and 1 Sophos Firewall. He intends to connect them in a ring with Firewall as a Gateway. So here is the planned setup: Sophos XGS Firewall as Gateway with 2 interfaces as bridge mode: Port 1 Bridge Mode on…
    • 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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    • 3 months 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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    • 4 months ago
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  • Transparently insert Sophos XG in a working network

    AGamal
    AGamal
    Hello, I have a situation where my ISP installed a router and gave me a subnet ( 10.1.1.0/24 ) with the gateway being the router(10.1.1.1). My understanding is that I need to configure an internal network (i.e 10.1.2.0/24) on the LAN side of the firewall…
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    • 6 months ago
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  • Does bridging VLANs or VLANs on a bridge make a difference?

    Wayne Folta
    Wayne Folta
    I have an APX320 on Port1 of an XGS. The original setup was to first bridge Port1, PortF1, and Port4 onto a bridge, LAN_Bridge, and then have the AP send three of its SSIDs down VLANs and bridge the other SSID to its LAN (LAN_Bridge). So the VLANs (LAN_Bridge…
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    • 6 months ago
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  • Bridge needs firewall rules, or not?

    Wayne Folta
    Wayne Folta
    I had our Sophos XG87 configured by our reseller when we bought it, since I knew nothing about how to do it properly. I've learned a lot and have changed quite a few things, but want to make a foundational change that will require destroying several things…
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    • 6 months ago
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  • XG bridge editing causes network to go down

    Daniel Fehrenbach
    Daniel Fehrenbach
    Hello, I have a bridged interface. Port 1, 4, and 8. VLANs 1, 10. the bridge is in the LAN zone. VLAN 10 supports nearly all traffic, VLAN 1 exists for a private wifi network that allows guests/vendors to use the internet, but prevents them from…
    • 7 months ago
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  • Help with configuration WAN interface as a bridge in Sophos Firewall

    LuisAyalaMagni
    LuisAyalaMagni
    Hello guys, my client is migrating from ISP to another. As you can see in the picture, this is gonna be the new topology. Is it possible to configure this way? I want to join Port2 and Port3 as a LAG interface; Port4 and Port5 as another LAG interface…
    • 8 months ago
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  • Break trunk LACP without losing attached DHCP reservation

    Nabil R1
    Nabil R1
    Hi all, I need some help with redoing my firewall setup. It was done a while ago and I’ve made some mistakes that I’d like to correct but want to minimise the amount of work. Here’s what I have : my firewall is a 6 ports firewall. 2 have been…
    • 8 months ago
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  • XG125 - Unable to remove physical and virtual interfaces from a bridge

    Comfortably Numb
    Comfortably Numb
    Could do with a little help in recovering both my physical port 5 and virtual interface from a bridge that’s no longer responding to any configuration options. Initially the intension was to bring together DLAN devices over the physical port and those…
    • 10 months ago
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  • Installing Sophos XG v20 Firewall home edition and SETTING up ALL ports as a router

    alex makura
    alex makura
    Hi, I have gone through a fair bit of posts and how-to online, so I decided to post the question here, after 5 days researching this. ---------------------- My setup: Motherboard with 1 built-in 1000mb/s ethernet port, 2x PCI-e cards HP NIC 2 ports…
    • 10 months ago
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  • Bridge interface is not working with vlan

    Joy Joy1
    Joy Joy1
    Dear Team, We have to add two interface as a bridge - like A1 and A2 with sub interfaces (Vlan interface). Below are the configuration steps which I had created yesterday for bridge interfaces- 1. Created Zone (Common ZONE) 2. having created…
    • 11 months ago
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  • Passing through external IPs

    Alex Harding1
    Alex Harding1
    Hi all, Hoping I can get pointed in the right direction! We have an opportunity to provide networking for a managed office, as part of this they want to be able to offer the protection that the XG can do. - That is simple enough and I can create VLANs…
    • 11 months ago
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  • XG appliance has no internet but LAN devices do

    Jakub Pusz
    Jakub Pusz
    Hello, I've Sophos XG installed in between ISP modem and router. The XG in bridge mode with LAN and WAN bridged together. The router and LAN all have internet access. However, Sophos XG doesn't - what I mean by that I can't update firmware for instance…
    • 11 months ago
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  • I want to assign physical ports of XGS136 to the same segment.

    akihiro murata
    akihiro murata
    hello. Sorry for my poor English. I was thinking of connecting LAN cables to multiple ports of the XGS136 to create one LAN like a regular router. ex) port1=WAN port2~port10=192.168.10.1~192.168.10.255 Assign default gateway 192.168.10.1 to…
    • over 1 year ago
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  • XG310 Max number of bridge interfaces

    NetFut
    NetFut
    Hi, In doc.sophos.com/.../index.html i found that a bridge interface can configure from 2 to 64 interfaces, but i don't find how many bridges can i configure. Does anyone know the limit?
    • over 1 year ago
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  • Lost access/ internet after creating a bridge

    jang430
    jang430
    I'm using port 1 as LAN, port 2 as WAN, and port 3 as backup WAN. So far, so good. I decided to try creating a bridge, since, why not? I have excess ports. I chose ports 5 and 6, assigned both to LAN, and gave it an IP address of 192.168.1.x. My firewall…
    • over 1 year ago
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  • XGS2100 bridge to connect switches

    Jim Fox
    Jim Fox
    We have set a bridge on ports 3 and 4 to plug the Aruba 2930 switches in parralell vs daisy chain, the bridge works as expected except we had an issue with printers. the pritners connected to port 3 work, but the printers on port 4 stop connecting, has…
    • over 1 year ago
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  • Bridge mode

    Diogo Moreira
    Diogo Moreira
    Hi, I have a Sophos 2100 with port 1 and 2 that are in bridge mode without IP where one is WAN and the other DMZ with public IP's. The problem is that I can only access these IP's outside Sophos but I needed to access them from my LAN network to manage…
    • over 1 year ago
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  • ROUTE MODE TO BRIDGE MODE

    Ernest Ebite
    Ernest Ebite
    Please i started by configuring in route mode instead of bridge mode. Please how can i change this to bridge mode without resetting .
    • over 1 year ago
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  • Combining LAN Ports / VLANS / DHCP

    Alexander BUCKLAND
    Alexander BUCKLAND
    Hi everyone, I was wondering if anyone can help. I have the follow: An XGS2100 I need to connect 4 separate switches into it. I need the 2100 to: 1. Act as a gateway for 5 different VLANS across the 4 ports irrespective of when the gateway…
    • over 1 year ago
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  • SSL/TLS inspection | bridge mode | multiple local subnets | SSL connections time out

    Nicolai
    Nicolai
    Dear community, i think we are suffering the same problem mark57165 described in his post 'IPS Service - with no FW rules - Prevents Certain Sites from Loading'. https://community.sophos.com/sophos-xg-firewall/f/discussions/134535/ips-service---with…
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    • over 1 year ago
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  • Tuning Proxy and Bridge mode

    Gib GoDesk
    Gib GoDesk
    Hey guys. I wanted to know about best practices for using Sophos in bridge mode. I have little basis in this matter and ask for help from those more experienced in the community. I have an environment with the network segmented into vlans, one for…
    • over 1 year ago
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  • Bridge Wireless Network on Sophos REDW to lag VLAN. Possible?

    seroal
    seroal
    Hi all, is it possible to bridge a Wireless Network to a vlan interface from the firewall itself? The traffic should not leave the RED itself in their lan interfaces. Can this only be done with using separate zone and bridge this separate zone with…
    • over 1 year ago
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  • Why is required bridge interface

    Joy Joy1
    Joy Joy1
    Hi All, Can anyone explain in layman's term what is the use of bridge interface/Mode in Sophos XG firewall. In which scenario do we use bridge mode also what is the benefits of it. Thanks
    • over 1 year ago
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