Sophos Firewall: v18.5 MR2: Feedback and experiences

Suggestion:

• Add Dark theme. 
• Add option to display Host in the browser tab to identify which firewall it is. This helps when working on multiple firewalls at the same time.
• When adding a new interface such as VLAN, give an option to create another one while the first one is been created. GUI takes forever to create the VLAN and then drop you back to the Network tab. This is really time-consuming when creating multiple VLANs during the initial setup.
• Add DHCP creation at the end of the new interface creation window. Give a check box for enable when created.
• Create a link from the DHCP lease to reserve the select lease. (Instead of copying the MAC, go into DHCP, then add there.)
• Give an option to NOT monitor and interface state. Sometimes, we left one LAN interface open and only use it to configure directly when all other interfaces are VLAN and there is no managed switch to use. Because this port is configured but unplugged, the home page always shows yellow on the interface. 
• In general, GUI is too slow even on high-end CPUs. To much wait time on each action. On a fast CPU(E3-1220), 20% of the time is waiting for GUI to load or action to complete. On a slower CPU(J1900), this goes up to 60-80%.
• Remove the WiFi interface or option to turn it off. In any case, there is no wifi directly on the firewall but connected via other interfaces.

Bugs(?):

• When WAN is on DHCP and WAN port state changed, WAN IP is not auto retrieved after the WAN state becomes online. WAN interface requires a change from the GUI to update the DHCP information. (In other words, when changing the WAN to a different IP, auto-update either take forever to happen or never auto-update.)
• When accessing Admin HTTPS from WAN, sometimes, the view log window from the GUI will cause the session to terminate. This requires a firewall reboot to fix. (I know WAN access is not recommended. This is only used for stagging..)
• From time to time, firewall rules drag to change orders stop working. (Suggestion: add the move up/down button directly on the rule/group.)

DangoPC said:

When WAN is on DHCP and WAN port state changed, WAN IP is not auto retrieved after the WAN state becomes online. WAN interface requires a change from the GUI to update the DHCP information. (In other words, when changing the WAN to a different IP, auto-update either take forever to happen or never auto-update.)

I have the same problem with my 2nd WAN connection, its a DHCP LTE connection. I used it as a backup connection with WAN Link Manager, and the whole XG would become unstable with services crashing after some hours. Since I disabled/unbound the port where the LTE modem is connected, everything went back to stable.

DangoPC said:

When WAN is on DHCP and WAN port state changed, WAN IP is not auto retrieved after the WAN state becomes online. WAN interface requires a change from the GUI to update the DHCP information. (In other words, when changing the WAN to a different IP, auto-update either take forever to happen or never auto-update.)

I have the same problem with my 2nd WAN connection, its a DHCP LTE connection. I used it as a backup connection with WAN Link Manager, and the whole XG would become unstable with services crashing after some hours. Since I disabled/unbound the port where the LTE modem is connected, everything went back to stable.

I had problems with my memory modules in my HW Firewall barebone. The DIMMs were defect leading to all sorts of core dumps.
Since I changed the DIMM, everything runs smoothly also with 2nd WAN connection.