What are the USB ports on XG Firewalls for?

Brian,

at the moment XG does not support USB network card.

http://ideas.sophos.com/forums/330219-sophos-xg-firewall/suggestions/10626648-add-support-to-usb-nic

At the moment the USB can be used to connect a keyboard/mouse.

Regards

Ok. So the USB ports cannot be used for things like a USB LTE hub (for say, failover from a down fibre WAN to a secondary cellular network).

Can you give me some examples of what the USB ports are for?

Hi Brian, 

The USB Ports on the appliance is used to connect the Keyboard, Cellular 3G dongle, and Pendrive. You may use a Cellular Network Card to use as a Backup or Active Gateway.  The interface is WWAN and can be configured on the XG appliance. 

All right! This is a good answer.

In the case of cellular dongles is support limited to 3G technologies? Specifically, I'd like to know if the XG Firewall 210 supports communication with a cellular LTE (4G) USB dongle. One such device would be this: http://support.bell.ca/mobility/products/4g_lte_novatel_wireless_u679_turbo_stick.

Hi Brian , 

The dongle needs to be compatible to Linux in order to operate on XG

Is there a list of compatible devices for the XG-210?

Thank You

Jason,

you can find the list here:

http://docs.sophos.com/nsg/sophos-firewall/v16053/Help/en-us/webhelp/onlinehelp/index.html#page/onlinehelp%2FWhatsNew.html%23

Regards

If we have one of the modems listed as compatible and have cellular service, what are steps to enable WAN failover on the XG-210? 

If we have one of the modems listed as compatible and have cellular service, what are steps to enable WAN failover on the XG-210? 

Jason,

from the online guide you can find all the info:

http://docs.sophos.com/nsg/sophos-firewall/v16052/Help/en-us/webhelp/onlinehelp/index.html#page/onlinehelp%2FWirelessWANStatus.html%23

Make sure next time to create a proper thread. One question per thread.

Regards