Sophos XGS Home support for Intel I211-AT Nic and Intel I225-V Nic

Question

Hi, 
 I am looking into buying hardware for a Sophos XG Home solution with the SW-18.5.1_MR-1-326 firmware. 
 The options I am considering at the moment are the following 2: 
 HSIPC J1900 4c; 8 GB RAM; 128 GB SSD; 4 * Intel I211-AT Nic HSIPC J4125 4c; 8 GB RAM; 256 GB SSD; 4 * Intel I225-V Nic 
 The J4125 CPU has better performance and AES encryption / decryption hardware acceleration. 
 The thing that I can not find a clear answer to on the community is support for the Intel Nic's that are being used for these devices. 
 Is there anyone that knows this or even better has experience with this? 
 I am planning to use all the security options so I think the J4125 solution would fit better. What do you think about this? My internet connection is 200/200 Mb. 
 Kind regards, 
 Roger

rfcat_vk · Answer

Hi, 
 intel NICs, anything but i219 series are supported. 
 At this set the home version does not use the AES encryption function on the cpu and neither do the low end XG series hardware. 
 The j4125 will run rings around the j1900. 
 Ian

rfcat_vk · Answer

Hi, 
 I reviewed the intel site and found the i-225v would appear to be an updated version of the i-219. Both are specified as pc/client devices and based on that, Sophos does not offer support for basically home/end user networking hardware, this is my opinion only. 
 Ian

Sakrapher · Answer

Hi, 
 It looks like the Intel I225-V is currently not supported. By chance I bought the HSIPC J4125 with the I225-V 2.5 Gbe interfaces and tried to install both the v19 EAP2 and the v18.5MR2 on it. Both versions could not find any interfaces. For testing, I installed the current OPNsense (v22.1), which recognized the interfaces correctly. 
 Has anyone had the opposite experience?

Sophos XGS Home support for Intel I211-AT Nic and Intel I225-V Nic

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