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Introducing the LIVEcommunity Support FAQ: Your Valuable Customer Resource

LIVEcommunity is thrilled to introduce its new Support FAQ section, designed to help Palo Alto Networks customers quickly resolve their common queries.

You'll find this new area under the Articles section of the main menu:

Our goal is simple:

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Global Protect Client Backward Compatibility

Hi,

We have around 500 concurrent SSL clients connecting to our Palo Alto Gateway using Global Protect version 3.0.1.

If I activate the newest version on the Firewall (Version 3.1.3), will the existing clients be unaffected by this activation and con

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Resolved! PA support point to multipoint IPSEC VPN?

Hello

Does PA support point to multipoint IPSEC in hub and spoke VPN envorirnmet? Means Only one tunnel interface we create on hub and through NHTB protocol, nexthop is bind to SA.

Regards,

GR

Resolved! Static bidirectional NAT or soruce/destination NAT

Hello Experts

Someone from PA told me that for public service like email server, where bidirectional NAT is required, it is best practice to use source NAT and destination NAT for the same public IP instead of using static NAT because static NAT will

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Resolved! Security policy and NAT - zone direction

Hello Experts

When I confiugre the NAT and associated security policy then I always confuse about the direction of zones. As I understand NAT zones are always determined by ingress interface zone (source zone) and route lookup gives the outoing inter

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Proxy id between Palo Alto firewall and Cisco ASA

Hello Experts

PA side there are two subnets: 10.0.1.0/24, 10.0.2.0/24 and Cisco side there are also three subnets 172.16.1.0/24 , 172.16.2.0/24.

On PA firewall, I defined the proxy-id as below:

proxy-id1: local: 10.0.1.0/24 remote: 172.16.1.0/24

proxy

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Blocking Bittorrent

I have setup two rules for blocking bittorrent on a particular zone. First rule is set to Deny Trust to Untrust using an application filter built with P2P applications. Second rule is set to Deny Untrust to Trust using the same application filter.

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Please explain the PanDB/Brightcloud's category “not-resolved”？

Hi,Guys: I found the category "Not-resolved" in device GUI(Both Pandb and Brightcloud), I searched it in paloaltonetworks.com and brightcloud.com website, But could not get any description about it. Any guy explain it ? Thanks Victor.Bai

Adding NAT rule order in Panorama cli

Hi all,

I am looking to add around 60+ NAT rules for monitoring over IPsec that requires a policy NAT. I need to have them above another rule in the list for it to work. It is a very messy NAT list that I don't have the freedom to clean up. The NAT e

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PA allowing IM (viber,line,zalo) | PA policy process

Hi,

target is to allow im apps but modify categires.

I have created a policy allowing IM and modify most categories as block.

Policy sample:

Policy is SRC: 192.168.x.x | DST: any | Srv: any | App: IM (viberbased,im,googlebased,ssl) | Url:BLK_CATEG

BL

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Resolved! Public email attachment

Is there any way to block users' uploading attachment for public email (gmail, yahoo mail and hotmail) ? I created a security policy for allowing applications (gmail, hotmail, yahoo-mail) and associated with file blocking profile but didn't work. Ple

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Resolved! Assign a new QOS profile to just one tunnel on a tunnel interface

Hi Guys,

I'm rather new to Palo and this community, so forgive me if I don't do this right.

We need to restrict the Egress Max of just one tunnel (out of 9) on a tunnel interface.

The config looks like this right now:

I would like to change just tunne

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Resolved! Crossover cables on PA-7050

Hello,

I found that for HA1 when there are directly connected, Palo Alto recoments to have them interconected with crossover cables.

is this the same with PA-7050?

https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/documentation/70/pan-os/pan-os/high-availability/config

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URL Filter vs. Type in firewall?

Does the URL filter at urlfiltering.paloaltonetworks.com have anything to do with how a Palo Alto firewall classifies the 'type' of site?

I noticed that there are some sites that our firewall classifies as 'spyware' that the URL filtering site classif

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