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Sophos XG under ESXi

NA NA3

Going though this as a guide:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/configuring-sophos-xg-firewall-vmware-esxi-kelvin-charles?trk=pulse_spock-articles

I got Sophos to work, however i had gto had 3 vNins in VM, and at this stage i'm still wondering why i needed 3, and not 2

VMWare Fusion: 1 private assigned : 169,x,x for NFS datastore on QNAP

1. Bridged

1. Host Only

ESxi can connect on 169.x.x a ok. and after adding vSwitch1 and Port Group, I get internet access, while at the same time having QNAP nas as my datastore (NFS)

However, while this works in VM (servers/clients) it does not work in Sophos, which i find strange, because 169.x.x is a network itself, it just has no gateway..

ESXi connects on 169.x.x just fine, but sophos cannot... would have thought this would work:

Port1: 169.254.x.x

Port2: Bridged (WAN)

configured via console... but doesn't work. can someone shed some light as to why?



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    Hi,

    the 169 address range is not valid. The address range is used by devices when they cannot receive an IP address eg they have no network connection.

    ian

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    It is easy to debug. 

    Go to the console of the VM. Go to advanced shell (5 - 3).

    Do a ifconfig PortA     or ifconfig Port1 

    Check for the correct IP and the correct MAC and verify, if this is the expected MAC of your adapter.

    Then perform a tcpdump -ni PortA 

    Check if your requests are coming or not. If not, its a ESXi Problem. 

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