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XG Log View not showing denied

Much like this post, https://community.sophos.com/products/xg-firewall/f/logging-and-reporting/98950/how-to-log-dropped-firewall-http-s-traffic, I'm noticing that since upgrading to v17 that the log viewer doesn't show all of the blocked traffic.  Is this a bug, or is there a setting need changed? 



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  • Hi,

    this is "works as designed". 

    If you want to see the dropped packets, you need a Default Drop rule on bot, so XG matches this rule for all non matching rules. 

    Basically most of the time, i dont need to know, if something is blocked without any rule, so i disable the default drop and only uses it for troubleshooting. Default drop "can" cause some problems, so be careful. 

    As far as i know, this is planned to be changed. 

  • Thanks for that suggestion Toni. It is very helpful.

    I was having same issue not seeing some blocked ported that never matched any rules. I could not find any option to show dropped/denied traffic from default rules. 

    Adding an manual rule at bottom with deny any to any worked great.

     

    On a side note you can see the traffic "live" in the PCAP/Packet capture. Just filter on violation.

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  • Thanks for that suggestion Toni. It is very helpful.

    I was having same issue not seeing some blocked ported that never matched any rules. I could not find any option to show dropped/denied traffic from default rules. 

    Adding an manual rule at bottom with deny any to any worked great.

     

    On a side note you can see the traffic "live" in the PCAP/Packet capture. Just filter on violation.

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