With the launch of XG Firewall v18 growing ever nearer, many of your customers will be planning for their software upgrade ahead of time, or maybe even considering a migration to XG from another firewall platform. We will detail here which hardware models can upgrade to XG v18 and where a hardware refresh would be necessary to support an upgrade. Sophos XG Firewall: How to download firmware updates KB-000038153 May 27, 2020 22 people found this article helpful. Note: The information can be found here: How to download firmware from Sophos Licensing PortalPrevious article ID: 132229. Did this article provide the information you were looking for? NOTE: The Sophos XG Free Home Use firewall contains its own operating system and will overwrite all data on the computer during the installation process. Therefore, a separate, dedicated computer is needed, which will change into a fully functional security appliance. Just right for the spare PC you have sitting in the corner!
Overview
The article introduces how to configure DNAT with Load Balancing for outside client can connect to Web Servers
Diagram
How to configure
Identifier for 2 Web server
- Navigate to Hosts and Services -> Choose IP Host -> Click Add
- Name
- In IP Version: Choose IPv4
- In Type: Choose IP List
- In List of IP Address: Enter the IP Addresses of 2 web servers
-> Click Save
Create DNAT rule
- Rules and policies -> Choose NAT rules -> Click Add NAT rule -> New NAT rule
- Enter name for DNAT rule
- In Rule position: Choose Top
- In Original source: Choose Any
- In Original destination: Choose WAN port
- In Original service: Choose HTTPS
- In Translated source (SNAT): Choose Original
- In Translated destination (DNAT): Choose webservers which was created before
- In Translated service (PAT): Choose Original
- In Inbound interface: Choose WAN port
- In Outbound interface: Choose Any
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- In Load Balancing method: Choose 1 on 5
- Round-robin: Requests are served sequentially, starting with the server next to the previously assigned server. Use it when you want to distribute traffic equally and don’t require session persistence.
- First alive: Incoming requests are served to the primary server (the first IP address of the range). If the primary server fails, requests are forwarded to the next server and so on. Use it for failover.
- Random: Requests are served randomly to the servers with equal load distribution. Use this when you want equal distribution and don’t require session persistence or order of distribution.
- Sticky IP: Traffic from a specific source is forwarded to the mapped server. Use this when you want the requests to be processed by the same server.
- One-to-one: Requests are sent to the mapped IP addresses. The IP addresses of the original and translated destinations must be equal in number.
- In Health check to check server
-> Click Save
One of the great new features in XG Firewall v18 that we covered in Part 3 of this series is the new SD-WAN Application and User/ Group based link selection capabilities. In this article, we’ll review how you can take advantage of those as a part of another new feature in XG Firewall v18 – Route Based IPsec VPN.
Route Based IPsec (RBVPN) in XG Firewall v18 enables truly dynamic IPsec site-to-site VPN tunnels. With RBVPN, network topology changes do not impact VPN policy and you no longer need to modify VPN policies if networks are added or removed from your environment, greatly simplifying VPN policy creation and management, especially in larger and more dynamic environments.
RBVPN provides full control over routing with support for static, dynamic (OSPF, BGP, RIP) and SD-WAN policy-based routes with RBVPN policies. RBVPN implementation in XG Firewall v18 also provides flexibility to setup more complex network address translation using the new NAT rule configuration such as VPN NAT overlap scenarios.
XG Firewall v18 also supports RBVPN tunnel interfaces for SD-WAN policy-based routes to support IPsec and MPLS co-existence with SD-WAN. This makes it possible to enable IPsec and MPLS (even on a non-WAN zone) to both be active at the same time with options for load balancing on VPN tunnels as well.
RBVPN is a well-accepted industry standard and interoperates nicely with other vendor’s route-based VPN tunnels making it easier to tunnel to Azure/ AWS and other cloud providers. Ultimately, Route based VPN is the preferred choice for today’s dynamic networks.
Making the Most of Route-Based IPsec VPN Tunnels in XG Firewall
This video provides a great detailed look at how to setup route-based VPN in XG Firewall v18:
Route Based VPN in XG Firewall v18 from Sophos on Vimeo.
Then, you can take full advantage of the new Synchronized SD-WAN policy-based routing for your VPN traffic, with options for user, group, application, and even Synchronized Application Control discovered app based-routing for your route-based VPN.
Synchronized SD-WAN leverages the added clarity and reliability of application identification that comes with the sharing of Synchronized Application Control information between Sophos-managed endpoints and XG Firewall. Synchronized Application Control can positively identify 100% of all networked applications, including evasive, encrypted, obscure, and custom applications and now these previously unidentified applications can also be added to SD-WAN and VPN routing. This provides a level of application routing control and reliability that other firewalls can’t match.
To use Synchronized Application Control discovered apps in your routing, when creating an application object for SD-WAN or VPN routing, you can select “Synchronized Application Control” from the technology drop-down box as show below to see all the relevant applications.
Here’s a summary of the resources available to help you make the most of the new features in XG Firewall v18, including the new route-based VPN capabilities:
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