Sophos XG: routing DNS queries
Presentation of routing DNS queries on Sophos XG The routing of DNS queries is similar to a conditional redirector under Windows, which allows to indicate for a DNS zone …
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Sophos XG : add a vlan
In this article, I’ll explain how to declare a vlan on your Sophos XG firewall. Before you create it on the firewall, you must make sure that the port of the switch where …
Sophos XG configure a DHCP relay
Présentation A DHCP relay is a service that listens for DHCPDISCOVER frames to transfer them to a DHCP server. The DHCP relay avoids installing a DHCP service by network …
Sophos XG: installation on Hyper-V
In this tutorial, we will have how to install a Sophos XG firewall on a virtual machine with Hyper-V . For this article, I used the Sophos XG home version which is …
Sophos XG: Configure the SNMP Agent
If you want to supervise the firewall using the SNMP service with software (PRTG , Centreon …), you must activate and configure the agent on the firewall. 1. From the …
Sophos XG: configure a Netflow server
Netflow is Cisco’s network-developed networking protocol, which collects information about IP flows. It is possible under Sophos XG to configure a Netflow server. PRTG …
Sophos XG : port forwarding rule
This tutorial explains how to create a rule on a Sophos XG <= 17 firewall to transfer internet traffic to a DMZ server.
Sophos XG: change the SSL VPN port
By default the SSL VPN port on the Sophos XG firewall is 8443, since version 17.1 it is possible to change the VPN listening port. Using port 443 for VPN blocks listening …
Sophos XG: add a host
This tutorial shows how to add a host (object) on a Sphos XG firewall in order to be able to use it in the different traffic rules
Sophos XG: secure emails
Introduction In this tutorial, we will see how to secure emails with a Sophos XG firewall. The firewall offers two modes of operation for filtering emails: MTA : the …
Sophos XG: Web and application filtering
In this tutorial, we’ll see how to put filtering on outgoing streams with a Sophos XG firewall. I will show you the two filter modules: Web: which is an internet proxy …
Sophos XG : The user portal
The user portal Introducing the Sophos XG User Portal, users can: -> Consult their internet statistics (volumetry / time / quota). -> Unblock quarantined email if email …