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When will a new GlobalProtectClient GUI/UI be written?

We've been holding off replacing our Cisco Anyconnect clients as the interface of GlobalProtect is a big downgrade for us.

Any idea when/if there will be improvements made to the GP UI?

At the moment it looks like it was developed by engineers with n

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Resolved! cli: traceroute host, ping host use connected interface

Is it possible to have traceroute host and ping host default to using the interface the cli was connected to?

We have the Management Interface of our PA 500 set to an internal address, like 192.168.129.11. We can connect to it from our mpls networ

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Crazy policies needed for BGP and VPN

Hi,

first read this article:

https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/Learning-Articles/Any-Any-Deny-Security-Rule-Changes-Default-Be...

then

I have this exactly behavor but I don't have wrote any/any/deny rules!

In my enviroment both intrazone-defa

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Vulnerability exemption

Hi

what is actually
simple-client-critical
simple-client-medium

I

I want to change the default action from alert to block .
the rule is under simple-client-medium , but the search result shows it is under
simple-client-high

Thanks

URL White Listing

Hi all,

First of all, we are impressed about MineMeld, thanks Luigi for your ideas and work.

We have just started to play with MineMeld and wandering the format to whitelist domains and network ranges using stdlib.listURLGeneric (as wlURL)

We would l

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Resolved! CLI checking licenses

Hi everyone! 2 quick questions in 1:

-To be able to include a URL as destination in a policy, do I need to have license for URL filtering?

-How can I check what licenses do I have in the CLI?

Thank you!

No Email protection for SaaS

The closest way to protect a SaaS email soltuion I have found is Proofpoint which has a wildfire API hook option.

I am supprised there is no SaaS service for forwarding attechments or inline scanning of email directly from paloalto networks.

Resolved! Block Traffic Based Upon Countries Source. Vulnerability Protection and For a Specific Time Interval

Hello

My objective is block automatically traffic IP for a different time intervals Based upon Countries (Top attack) and applying a vulnerability profile.

This is my Vulnerability Protection Profile and his rules:

Rules (1-3600 sec). I don't wan

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TAP interface questions

I'd like to monitor a portion of my network on my failover PA in TAP mode.

Will this affect my HA pair at all?

Is it possible to set up an aggregate TAP of 2 ports?

thanks in advance...

We are working on hardening our firewall rules by replacing any to application default(service) and from any to the specific application(application). Example - we changed any to web-application and any to application-default. People hitting the same

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High count of packet retransmissions/Dups over IPSEC/VPN

Hi!

I'm running IPSEC-VPN (AES256/SHA256/DH14) tunnel between a PaloAlto PA-500 and a Fortigate 110C via Internet (10MBit up/down guaranteed both sides - latency between 40 and 50ms).

90% connections are ICA/HDX connections (TCP 1494 and 2598) for X

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ipv6 aggregator

Is there an ipv6 aggregator on the roadmap?

I noted that the URL aggregator can already extract them when the miners includes ipv6 IPs in the URLs (ex: office365), but did not find a way to get just the IPv6 addresses.

Resolved! dns amplification attack

Hi,

What are the best practices need to be followed to protect from the ddos dns amplification attack .

How to filter the trace from the log if there is any attack happened ?

Thanks

Resolved! RegEx for specific DNS strings

I was working on getting Data Filtering to block specific DNS requests with no resolution.

So, I am creating a Custom Application for DNS with a Pattern matching, which is partially working.

Working strings:

Under Objects/Applications/("Added applicatio

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Export config from TFTP (non-management interface)

I was trying to export my running-config.xml with TFTP. It works fine when doing it from the management interface but is not working from any other interface.

If I use the source-ip to export the configuration i get a Timeout even though I can ping m

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