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Firewall First Test - Complete Fail

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So the 1 hour window to plug in this new firewall on the corporate LAN was a failure in my opinion. First thing I noticed was the ethernet connection on my PC was saying I had no internet when I actually did but there was no http, it only seemed to all direct to https, so probably why the warning flag on the connection. Second out of all my firewall rules only 2 were successful. I saw one of our international staff uploading through FTP and Exchange OWA was accessible, all the VOIP and Exchange email services did not work.  I did manage to get one VOIP Port 443 to actually start communicating but this was after i created a business rule and reversed my source and destination settings, I tried this with others but no go.

I wasn't really sure how to troubleshoot exactly as I qwas also dealing with staff coming up making stupid chit chat , that they had no email, really distracting. So my hour came and gone in no time. I just shut down the system and packed it up to bring home and work on. Bit deflated at the moment so not sure if I want to continue or simply have an experienced company set this up.

Really frustrated why I am not understanding the whole communication between the outside and inside.



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    I agree with other comments.

    I run two XG210s in production environment. One in Norwich, and the other in London.

    I have a 105W at home that is my real world testing unit. I am fortunate that I have an employer that understands I need to test things like that.

    What I also do have, is a visualised environment that I mirror the live production environment as much as I can for basic things. It helps me understand updates etc and I have two DCs in two sites, and an exchange server, . The two XGs are visualised running the home version. The test environment is not that expensive really and very valuable. I just mention it as you may want to look at that as a route to understand whats going on, in a safer environment.

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    Thank you all for your comments. I actually contacted our Sophos vendor on Saturday and asked him about sending me a XG105 for my home system, that's a good idea. I can set up a VM environment as well to simulate. But I'm just biding my time as our current firewall is unstable so it may come sooner than later the permanent swap. Its most likely my lack of expertise with firewalls that is the main problem, i'm sure there are plenty of members here who could have had it setup in no time, its not really a difficult setup, its my lack of understanding how it all works working against me.

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  • 0 in reply to RichardPhillips

    Thank you all for your comments. I actually contacted our Sophos vendor on Saturday and asked him about sending me a XG105 for my home system, that's a good idea. I can set up a VM environment as well to simulate. But I'm just biding my time as our current firewall is unstable so it may come sooner than later the permanent swap. Its most likely my lack of expertise with firewalls that is the main problem, i'm sure there are plenty of members here who could have had it setup in no time, its not really a difficult setup, its my lack of understanding how it all works working against me.

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