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Torrent

Hello Guys,Have anyone of you noticed something regarding torrent(bittorrent, transmission..etc..)?We received a report that a torrent app which is transmission is able to evade the app detection of Palo Alto NGFW.I tested it in my lab, I use Bittorrent and I saw that it can really breach Palo Alto NGFW and successfully downloaded a file.We trac...

TCP Sliding Window checks stops after L7 scan is completed for a session

Hello,Does anyone have a document confirming the expected behavior from PANOS 4.1 regarding the TCP Sliding Window checks when the L7 scan is completed (hw session offload) for TCP session?Thanks

Migrate from ASA 5505 to a PA 3020

Any one know the best what to migrate this configuration from a Cisco ASA 5505 to a PA 3020 here it show run information for the interfaces from the ASA 5505interface Ethernet0/0 switchport accessvlan 900 !interface Ethernet0/1 switchport accessvlan 300 ! interface Ethernet0/2 switchport trunkallowed vlan 1,999switchport trunk native vlan...

Problem with chained Cert

HelloI made a CSR. Got my Cert and did the stuff mentioned in the "how to chained certificate", Copied the intermediate on top of my cert.but the PA-500 did not accept it. okey i tried it without the intermediate cert text - and it worked. Request is gone and now there is a valid cert.but now when i try to open the captivePortal Response page i ...

Resolved! Youtube safe mode

Hello all,Yes its youtube again, for a while now youtube has been working fine since we turned on the safety-mode feature and forced students to select safe-mode.But this week they have been complaining that not all the videos work.I have looked at the logs and there are some videos that have a url at googlevideos.com and these are using the goo...

What do WRED drops and Policing drop on qos mean?

HelloI have made qos configuration. I have questions when am checking qos.Look at the following commandshow qos interface ethernet1/1 hw-counter qid name pass bytes WRED drop policing drop--------------------------------------------------------------------------------0 default 3408809811 0...

Resolved! Captive Portal using client certificates on iOS

Has anyone been able to successfully set up captive portal +Apple iOS devices + client certificates? I have all of this set up but running into a slight issue with iOS devices(works fine with Windows devices). On the iOS device, when opening the Safari browser to get it to auth to captive portal, I get the pop-up that asks me to select the cert...

If we configure Dynamic IP address pools to reserve IP addresses, is there any logging of NAT events?

I have been researching Dynamic IP NAT, and have found the option to configure Dynamic IP address pools to reserve IP addresses for translation. Taken from "Understanding and Configuring NAT Tech Note":Reserving IP AddressesDynamic-IP address pools can be configured to reserve IP addresses for translation. By default, the IP reservation setting,...

IPSEC VPN phase 1 renegotiation

HelloI am facing packet drops whenever the phase 1 re-negotiates. The SA gets expired and deleted but it takes 20 minutes for it to start the P1 phase again. In that period the traffic times out until the P1 starts again after 20 minutes. Below are the logs. I have replaced our gateway address with xx.xx.xx.xx2013-11-05 10:24:02 [INFO]: ====&gt...

Resolved! URL Filtering and SSL sites

Hi all,I have a question regarding URL filtering. I set up URL filtering in Security Profiles to "Continue" for Social Networking. I noticed that if i open the first site under social networking, i get the response page "to continue", after that if i open the 2nd social networking i do not get any prompt, it just opens. And the same for any web ...

Resolved! DNS resolving

I was wondering if there is a way to resolve domain names on a Palo Alto (except ping) and not using a DNS proxy object.Kind regards,Bob

Resolved! How QOS works

Heyjust trying to figure out and play with QOS for understading on how it works for ferther implementaion of QOS policyso my environment is PA-500 with 2 interfaces in VWireethernet 1/11 - vsys3-untrustethernet 1/12 - vsys3-trusthave my computer connected to vsys3-trust (eth1/12)i have configured 2 QOS profiles one for outbound QOS and one for i...

Pre-Logon without Windows credentials

Hello,I want to test the pre-logon feature of GlobalProtect in our environment.Our clients are using two factor authentication (eToken) for the windows login. So they don't know their windows credentials.We have already installed machine certificates on our clients and the authentication with this certificate works with GlobalProtect. Also when ...

Basic QoS Understanding

So, I'm trying to get a clear understanding of QoS on the PA's. Any feedback / answers would be appreciated:Maximum Egress - Straight forward - the maximum amount of traffic you are allowing out.Guaranteed Egress - This one I'm foggy on. Is it only applied during congestion? Or does it literally "carve out" that much of the pipe for that clas...

Slow transferspeed over IPSec against ASA5510

One of our customer has a Cisco ASA 5510.We have successfully created a IPSec tunnel and traffic flows both ways, but when trying to transfer a file, the speed caps at ~300KB/s, every 4-5 packets is dropped and the latency goes from ~3ms to 90ms.Both locations has a 100/100Mbit/s access.Any good ideas?

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Torrent

TCP Sliding Window checks stops after L7 scan is completed for a session

Migrate from ASA 5505 to a PA 3020