Add a DHCP Relay
Using a DHCP relay, you can provide dynamic address allocation for clients that are not on the same subnet as the DHCP server.
Keep track of currently signed-in local and remote users, current IPv4, IPv6, IPsec, SSL, and wireless connections.
Reports provide a unified view of network activity for the purpose of analyzing traffic and threats and complying with regulatory bodies. For example, you can view a report that includes all web server protection activities taken by the firewall, such as blocked web server requests and identified viruses.
This menu allows checking the health of your device in a single shot. Information can be used for troubleshooting and diagnosing problems found in your device.
Firewall rules implement control over users, applications, and network objects in an organization. Using the firewall rule, you can create blanket or specialized traffic transit rules based on the requirement. The rule table enables centralized management of firewall rules.
With intrusion prevention, you can examine network traffic for anomalies to prevent DoS and other spoofing attacks. Using policies, you can define rules that specify an action to take when traffic matches signature criteria. You can specify protection on a zone-specific basis and limit traffic to trusted MAC addresses or IP–MAC pairs. You can also create rules to bypass DoS inspection.
Web protection keeps your company safe from attacks that result from web browsing and helps you increase productivity. You can define browsing restrictions with categories, URL groups, and file types. By adding these restrictions to policies, you can block websites or display a warning message to users. For example, you can block access to social networking sites and executable files. General settings let you specify scanning engines and other types of protection. Exceptions let you override protection as required for your business needs.
Application protection helps keeps your company safe from attacks and malware that result from application traffic exploits. You can also apply bandwidth restrictions and restrict traffic from applications that lower productivity. Application filters allow you to control traffic by category or on an individual basis. With synchronized application control, you can restrict traffic on endpoints that are managed with Sophos Central. Managing cloud application traffic is also supported.
Wireless protection lets you define wireless networks and control access to them. The firewall supports the latest security and encryption, including rogue access point scanning and WPA2. Wireless protection allows you to configure and manage access points, wireless networks, and clients. You can also add and manage mesh networks and hotspots.
With email protection, you can manage email routing and relay and protect domains and mail servers. You can specify SMTP/S, POP/S, and IMAP/S policies with spam and malware checks, data protection, and email encryption.
You can protect web servers against Layer 7 (application) vulnerability exploits. These attacks include cookie, URL, and form manipulation. Use these settings to define web servers, protection policies, and authentication policies for use in Web Application Firewall (WAF) rules. General settings allow you to protect web servers against slow HTTP attacks.
Advanced threat protection allows you to monitor all traffic on your network for threats and take appropriate action, for example, drop the packets. You can also view Sandstorm activity and the results of any file analysis. Use these results to determine the level of risk posed to your network by releasing these files.
By synchronizing with Sophos Central, you can use Security Heartbeat to enable devices on your network to share health information. Synchronized Application Control lets you detect and manage applications in your network. Additionally, you can manage your XG Firewall devices centrally through Sophos Central.
Security Heartbeat is a feature that allows endpoints and firewalls to communicate their health status with each other. Find the details on how it works, what different health statuses there are, and what they mean.
A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a tunnel that carries private network traffic from one endpoint to another over a public network such as the internet. VPN allows users to transfer data as if their devices were directly connected to a private network. You can use a VPN to provide secure connections from individual hosts to an internal network and between networks. VPNs are commonly used to secure communication between off-site employees and an internal network and from a branch office to the company headquarters.
Network objects let you enhance security and optimize performance for devices behind the firewall. You can use these settings to configure physical ports, create virtual networks, and support Remote Ethernet Devices. Zones allow you to group interfaces and apply firewall rules to all member devices. Network redundancy and availability is provided by failover and load balancing. Other settings allow you to provide secure wireless broadband service to mobile devices and to configure advanced support for IPv6 device provisioning and traffic tunnelling.
The firewall is shipped with physical and virtual interfaces. A physical interface is a port, for example, Port1, PortA, or eth0. A virtual interface is a logical representation of an interface that lets you extend your network using existing ports. You can bind multiple IP addresses to a single physical interface using an alias. You can also create and configure interfaces that support Remote Ethernet Devices.
A zone is a grouping of interfaces. Zones also specify the services that can be used to administer devices and authenticate users. When used with firewall rules, zones provide a convenient method of managing security and traffic for a group of interfaces.
The WAN link manager allows you to configure gateways to support failover and load balancing.
You can obtain the address of a DNS server from a DHCP or PPPoE server, or you can specify static DNS servers. Other options allow you to resolve requests for specific hosts using a specified IP address and to resolve requests for external domains using DNS servers on your network.
The firewall supports the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol as defined in RFC 2131 (IPv4) and RFC 3315 (IPv6). You can use DHCP servers to dynamically allocate unique IP addresses to devices on a network. Using a DHCP relay, you can provide dynamic address allocation for clients that are not on the same subnet as the DHCP server. You can also view lease records.
You can use DHCP servers to dynamically allocate unique IP addresses to devices on a network. You can also configure the server to assign static addresses.
You can use DHCP servers to dynamically allocate unique IP addresses to devices on a network. You can also configure the server to assign static addresses.
Using a DHCP relay, you can provide dynamic address allocation for clients that are not on the same subnet as the DHCP server.
The firewall supports stateless address auto-configuration (SLAAC) for IPv6 devices. Using SLAAC, IPv6 devices automatically create unique link-local addresses for IPv6 enabled interfaces, and clients use router advertisement messages to configure their own IP address automatically.
Cellular WAN networks provide secure wireless broadband service to mobile devices.
An IP tunnel is a mechanism that encapsulates one network protocol as a payload for another network protocol. Using a tunnel, you can encapsulate an IPv6 packet into an IPv4 packet for communication between IPv6-enabled hosts/networks over an IPv4 network, or vice versa.
The firewall uses the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) and Neighbor Discover Protocol (NDP) to enable communication between hosts residing on the same subnet. Using these protocols, the firewall creates IP/MAC mappings and stores them in neighbor caches. Static mappings are also supported. The firewall uses cached entries to detect neighbor poisoning attempts.
Dynamic DNS (DDNS) enables you to access the firewall when it is provisioned with a dynamic IP address.
Set up a site-to-site RED tunnel between two Sophos XG Firewall devices without deploying a RED device. In this type of configuration, one device acts as the server and the other as the client.
To deploy RED devices manually, you need to download the provisioning file for the RED interface and save it to a USB stick.
This section provides options to configure both static and dynamic routes.
You can set up authentication using an internal user database or third-party authentication service. To authenticate themselves, users must have access to an authentication client. However, they can bypass the client if you add them as clientless users. The firewall also supports two-factor authentication, transparent authentication, and guest user access through a captive portal.
Use system services to configure the RED provisioning service, high availability, and global malware protection settings. Other options let you view bandwidth usage and manage bandwidth to reduce the impact of heavy usage. Using log settings, you can specify system activity to be logged and how to store logs. Data anonymization lets you encrypt identities in logs and reports.
Profiles allow you to control users’ internet access and administrators’ access to the firewall. You can define schedules, access time, and quotas for surfing and data transfer. Network address translation allows you to specify public IP addresses for internet access. You can specify levels of access to the firewall for administrators based on work roles.
Hosts and services allows defining and managing system hosts and services.
Administration allows you to manage device licenses and time, administrator access, centralized updates, network bandwidth and device monitoring, and user notifications.
Certificates allows you to add certificates, certificate authorities and certificate revocation lists.
The firewall provides extensive logging capabilities for traffic, system activities, and network protection. Logs include analyses of network activity that let you identify security issues and reduce malicious use of your network. You can send logs to a syslog server or view them through the log viewer.
With the policy test tool, you can apply and troubleshoot firewall and web policies and view the resulting security decisions. For example, you can create a web policy to block all social networking sites for specified users and test the policy to see if it blocks the content only for the specified users. The results display the details of the action taken by the firewall, including the relevant rules and content filters.
Network objects let you enhance security and optimize performance for devices behind the firewall. You can use these settings to configure physical ports, create virtual networks, and support Remote Ethernet Devices. Zones allow you to group interfaces and apply firewall rules to all member devices. Network redundancy and availability is provided by failover and load balancing. Other settings allow you to provide secure wireless broadband service to mobile devices and to configure advanced support for IPv6 device provisioning and traffic tunnelling.
The firewall supports the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol as defined in RFC 2131 (IPv4) and RFC 3315 (IPv6). You can use DHCP servers to dynamically allocate unique IP addresses to devices on a network. Using a DHCP relay, you can provide dynamic address allocation for clients that are not on the same subnet as the DHCP server. You can also view lease records.
Using a DHCP relay, you can provide dynamic address allocation for clients that are not on the same subnet as the DHCP server.
Using a DHCP relay, you can provide dynamic address allocation for clients that are not on the same subnet as the DHCP server.
Option | Description |
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IP version | IP version to be supported by the DHCP relay. Allocation will occur only for the type selected. |
Interface | Interface to use for the DHCP server. The firewall listens for DHCP queries on the selected interface. |
DHCP server IP | DHCP servers to which all packets will be forwarded. The active server will service the request. If the active server goes down, the backup server will service the request. |
Relay through IPsec | Relay DHCP messages through an IPsec VPN tunnel. |
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