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allow Skype and Block Skype VoIP and file sharing

HiI've been asked if I can use our Palo's to allow skype messaging only and block users to make calls and send/receive files using Skype. I already seen some discussion saying that this is not possible but i'm wondering if paloalto comes with something new in the new PAN OS 5 and 6 releases since those discussion are from 2012 and 2013.Thanks

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Resolved! Help setting up a rule to block all traffic at night

OK, I'm new to firewalls in general and I inherited our Palo Alto PA500 with PANOS v5. I"m trying to set up a rule that doesn't let any traffic in or out of the building from 7:00 pm to 7:00 am. Currently my boss has a rule that the last person out unplugs the internet from the LAN. I find this to be ridiculous and insist that we can do somethin...

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Can PA block Web shell or shell script?

Hello, guys~One of my customer want to know whether the Pan block web shell or shell script. In my opinion, there's no ips which can block those attacks 100%. Threat prevention of the PA is signature base also, which means if it detects well-known web shell, it might block it. If not, it can't.It's sure that web shell is based on web server appl...

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packet size issue

Hi All,Noticed unable to ping packet size above 996 after upgrading to PAN OS 5.few of our internet apps(cloud) is acting intermittently Anyone encountering the same issue? Any advice is appreciated? Thanks.> ping size 995 source 172.21.194.22 host google.comPING google.com (74.125.226.14) from 172.21.194.22 : 995(1023) bytes of data.72 bytes...

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Resolved! Traffic log showing "attempted" rules

Hi,I have a few security policies (below) and did some testing on them, and found the traffic log displaying some interesting results; I have an idea of why this shows up in the log, but may be somebody more experienced can confirm.I have a rule that allows DNS application, any port:and a rule below that allows any outbound traffic:When looking ...

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Wildfire Activation

I successfully actived Wildfire in my environment..however, no data is being pushed to my external syslog server (Splunk) or the online Wildfire portal. Is there a sample file I can download to test if its working?

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External Captive Portals

Hello I have a question about external captive portals .. My client is migrating the firewall to Palo Alto, but he wants to keep the captive portal that is already in use in another box. My question is: How can I make users be visible and identifiable in palo alto, sending the internet requests (websites) to another box? this can be done? The id...

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Resolved! Stop WMI-probing on User-ID Agent

Hey there,I am glad to join this community and and excited to work with these new age firewalls.To keep this question short and sweet, we have to PA-500's and are using GlobalProtect for VPN, and it works awesome! However, I did not set it up, but did take over his recent position.Now from my reading on the GlobalProtect set-up I understand the ...

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SSL Decryption firewall vs web proxy?

Hi,I see the Palo Alto firewalls can do SSL decryption inbound and outbound in order to inspect the contents for threats is there an advantage to doing this on the palo firewall as opposed to the ironport web proxy?It looks to me like a good idea to do outbound SSL on the proxy as that would see the traffic first but inbound ssl to our servers o...

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Resolved! cannot understand drop reason

heyi have a client that connects to a remote site using GP, and that site have s2s vpn to my site,we have problems connecting to a server in that site, we can i cannot see and drops in the traffic or threat logs,i have put filter on the ips and used tha show global couters shows this drops:Global counters:Elapsed time since last sampling: 5.880...

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DoS Protection - Calls to aspx

Hi,I am wanting to create a DoS protection rule specific to http uri requests that have /*.aspx (so, the uri is at the root). I was approaching this by creating a custom application with a signature with the following:pattern matchcontext: http-req-uri-pathpattern: /*.aspx/*qualifier: http-method GETHowever, this pattern does not meet the 7byte ...

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