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Settings & Physical Setup

Hey There,

I have finally installed the XG firewall home on a PC. I am now trying to set the appliance up in my home network and begin configuring the device. I have zero firewall experience and a non technical background. I basically chose to utilize the firewall for my home network to protect my laptop, various tablets,iPhone, and smart home automated devices/sensors and hubs (i.e. VeraPlus, Wink, Hue, and the various associated IoT devices).

Current network equipment:

Cable modem

Netgear Nighthawk Router (AC1900) (currently the DHCP server with 4 ethernet ports) (2 SSIDS used for IoT and Guest network @ 2.4GHZ)

Apple time capsule/express in bridge mode (3 ethernet ports) (2 SSIDS used for laptop, tablets, and iphone @ 5GHZ)

Netgear 8 port gigabit switch (all smart home devices & hubs, cameras, Kodi box)

Question 1: Where should I place the XG Firewall into my network (there are two ports in the appliance)

Question 2: I have read much of the documentation; however there really is no step-by-step instruction for my type of network configuration. Can someone offer up some advice on the first few steps to configure my device that would protect all my devices and secure my 4 SSID's. I really do not know what to do at this point. I did however was able to install the software to access the graphgical Security Control Center at 172.16.16.16:4444, but my computer doesn't like the sercurity certificate for which I added an exception and can now view the charts and network on the graphical interface.

Thank you very much.

Wayne

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0 sachingurung over 8 years ago

Hi Wayne,

Welcome to the Sophos Community.

Refer https://www.sophos.com/en-us/medialibrary/PDFs/documentation/Sophos-Firewall-Software-Appliance-Getting-Started-Guide.pdf?la=en , it has all the basic configurations defined for getting started.

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0 WayneKossman over 8 years ago in reply to sachingurung

Yes, thank you. I have read the getting started and gotten as much information out of it that I can.

I have a Netgear Nighthawk Router that is running in AP mode. I am attempting to configure the XG firwall to discover the Netgear AP, but I am not getting anywhere. I have two ports in the XG Firewall Port 1 is the integrated NIC at 100gps and Port 2 is a NIC card at 1000gbs.

Can you tell me what configurations and cabling must I make to get my firwall to be the DHCP server for my network and to control the Netgear AP?

Thank you.
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0 sachingurung over 8 years ago in reply to WayneKossman

Hi Wayne,

You cannot discover any third party AP in the Wireless section of XG. Unfortunately, XG is hard coded to only support Sophos AP hence, you cannot manage the third party AP.

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0 sisdabrantas over 8 years ago in reply to sachingurung

hi, is it true if sophos xg doesn't support other AP except sophos AP itself? i try to config my unifi if it support by the way. just waiting the sophos xg coming.
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