XG Firewall v18 MR-3: Feedback and experiences

I created a thread as requested

community.sophos.com/.../flow-problem-following-the-migration-to-sophos-xg-18

If you get any coredumps or something like that, feel free to open an own thread and link it to this. 

The system still reboots after the crash, due to vmware tools.

But I re-installed the same version from/for esxi OVF instead of ISO, and see how that goes ....

Hey guys

I have been absent from the XG Forums for a while and came back and great to see so many new things in V18. I just updated from v17.5 MR11 to v18 MR3 overnight.

So far so good with nothing reported broken :-)

One thing I did try was a full new Discovery with my PRTG Network Monitor on SNMP - great to see there are all the things we need with Ports, Traffic, etc. Gets a tick from me :-)

Lets see what else I can try - not enabled DPI over Proxy yet but might play when I have time.

Hi folks,

there is a bug in there secure storage master key process. I had to perform an upgrade on my standby machine which has a different licence. To perform the restore you need both the backup encryption key and the master storage key, but on restore you are asked to create a master storage key, maybe because I restored to a different licence?

To fix my main XG I need a VGA cable which all seem to have vanished.

Ian

Hi guys, anyone having issues with stability? VPN users reporting connection issues, web admin portal unusable, I even could not restart the router (XG125). So I had to do a hard unplug reset. I was waiting with V18 for at least MR3. Because let's be honest, quality of XG firmwares is going downhill pretty badly. And still v18 MR3 was too soon :-/ If this happens again, I will roll back to v17.

XG was basically dead, no web admin, no ssh, so I cannot provide any more info. Routing, wan connectivity was ok though.

well it is still yo-yoing even after changing the DPD setting, I have now changed the key lifetimes to your settings (although this is the first time as they always just work).

at the moment I am willing to try anything as support communication is going downhill

I will keep you updated

I just had my XG106 MR-3 freeze up where I had to unplug it and plug it back in. It froze in the middle of the night and nothing in the logs that was unusual.  I honestly never had to do this before with any of my Sophos firewalls.  It's been on MR-3 for a week I think. 

Hello Ben,

Do you see any gap in the logs for csc.log, applog.log, syslog.log, networkd.log when this happened?

Also do you see a gap in Memory or CPU graph, when this issue was happening?

Regards,