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Sophos Client Firewall and 3G NDIS

ricdgr

Hi,

What is the meaning of the following statement (from the release notes):

- Sophos Client Firewall does not support the “mobile broadband” driver

Does it mean Sophos Client Firewall does not support the NDIS driver?

What exactly happens when a computer is using that kind of driver? Will the firewall allow all the traffic? Can the client fallback to the Windows Firewall? Exactly how can we overcome this limitation?

Thanks.

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    Hi,

    Windows 7 Driver Model is, as far as I see, the now most commonly available driver.

    I don't know about others, but in my Company we never install those "utilities" that ship with 3G network cards (normally they are consumer based apps, requiring RW permissions for All Users under Program Files, and some other stupid things like that). We rely on the Windows 7 and the new driver model (NDIS) functionality to support things like "disable when roaming", or SCCM 2012 "don't download updates when using broadband", AnyConnect "disable 3G when WIFI is available", etc.

    I find it a huge shortcomming that a driver model released >3y ago is still not supported.

    But the most important thing is really the the meaning of "does not support". Will it stop the firewall altogether ("allow all IN/OUTfrom broadband"), or only some features are not supported?

    Hope someone from SOPHOS can clear this out for me.

    Thanks.

    :40957
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    Hi,

    Windows 7 Driver Model is, as far as I see, the now most commonly available driver.

    I don't know about others, but in my Company we never install those "utilities" that ship with 3G network cards (normally they are consumer based apps, requiring RW permissions for All Users under Program Files, and some other stupid things like that). We rely on the Windows 7 and the new driver model (NDIS) functionality to support things like "disable when roaming", or SCCM 2012 "don't download updates when using broadband", AnyConnect "disable 3G when WIFI is available", etc.

    I find it a huge shortcomming that a driver model released >3y ago is still not supported.

    But the most important thing is really the the meaning of "does not support". Will it stop the firewall altogether ("allow all IN/OUTfrom broadband"), or only some features are not supported?

    Hope someone from SOPHOS can clear this out for me.

    Thanks.

    :40957
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