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loopback standing in for end device

kcheng — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 16:27:57 GMT

hi,

my company has an extra pair of 820 firewalls. for practice i was thinking of setting up active-standby ha on them in lab environment. even though its a lab, my company doesnt have too many extra workstations or laptops lying around. so would a loopback interface in panos 10.x be a sufficient stand to act as a end device?

Re: loopback standing in for end device

Y-alwaysMe — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 11:20:20 GMT

hi Kcheng,

Loopback would only act as another interface on the Palo Alto and would not act as an end device.

I don't know if the lab environment is at your office or home, but if at home then you would be able practice many scenario's with just two interfaces - inside & outside interface and you would only need 1 device for this.