Sophos XG 430 LCD with XG Home Firewall Installes

Hello Fred,

Thank you for contacting the Sophos Community!

I would suggest checking if the lcdd service is running or if you find any clue in the lcd.log, but most likely since the XG will treat it as Software, probably the LCD won’t work.

Regards,

Hi Emmanuel,

Thank you for the suggestion.

I think it has to do with the type of install. The XG Home Firewall is installed as a software version.

Are you guys still not looking at allowing a hardware device to use a Home License?

Regards

Fred

Hi,

you can install the home version on a Sophos hardware device, you need to wipe/replace the the hard drive to remove the hardware information. In most cases the LCD will not work.

Ian

Hi,

you can install the home version on a Sophos hardware device, you need to wipe/replace the the hard drive to remove the hardware information. In most cases the LCD will not work.

Ian

This is unhelpful and repetitive - the issue is that by doing this, we completely cripple the physical capabilities of the hardware, thus sort of defeating the purpose of owning it.

Personally I've never found the LCD and the controls associated with it of much use (on hardware versions).

The only thing I can think of that the home edition really lacks is AES-NI hardware acceleration (you can vote for it here - https://ideas.sophos.com/forums/330219-xg-firewall/suggestions/40424218-hardware-acceleration-aes-ni-for-xg-software-ver)

Is there anything else you feel is lacking in terms of hardware support in the software version?