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Just skype

Hi,

An environment like LAN - PAN - Proxy - Router - Internet

is there a way to block everything but allow just skype.No web browsing, nothing allowed except skype.

I tried some rules but skype couldn't connect.

Thanks.

Palo Alto blocking Symantec Antivirus

My URL filter on my PA2050 is blocking https://143.127.102.40/mrclean as malware-sites. This is Symantec SEP talking to the Symantec cloud. A discussion of the URIs used by Symantec is located here: Clients connecting to an IP. | Symantec Connect

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cluster question

Hi,

Device1 Active

Device2 Passive

When a failover happens...it takes about 7-8 timeouts(45 second) : device1 passive device2 active

When a failover happens again it takes about 1 timeout(good time): device1 active device2 passive

Any ideas ?

Thanks.

SYSTEM ALERT: Version 5.0.5

Hi All,

After upgrading to version 5.0.5 i have a strange thing....

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severity: high

opaque: HA Group 1: Peer version of 5.0.5 not compatible with the HA2 keep-alive setting; disabling HA2 keep-alive

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severity: critical

opaque: HA Group 1: All HA1 conn

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Resolved! M-100 Panorama Mode Collectors in HA

Probably an obvious question but the documentation doesn't seem to reference this directly...

If I have 2 x M-100s in HA, by default they are in a state where the primary is listed within the "Managed Collectors". From what I understand the logs are

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Resolved! Global Protect with Active Directory Accounts

Hello all,

I have what might be a simple question. I want to authenticate to Global Protect SSL-VPN using my current Active Directory users. Do I need to have the User ID software installed on a domain server to do this? If thats needed for LDAP can o

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Resolved! Bi-directional NAT is still requiring a /32 static route

I have two VPN tunnels established with a vendor. 1 is in San Digeo and 1 is in Las Vegas. The subnet in SD uses 10.220.1.0/24 and LV uses 10.220.2.0/24. With both tunnels they want me to NAT my IP of 172.16.1.235 to 10.200.249.30. I have a NAT s

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Run NetConnect and Global Protect concurrently on 4.0.12

I would like to run Global Protect and NetConnect on a 4.0.12 firewall.

I have domain users and vendors that I would like to address separately pushing the GP.msi through Group Policy to the domain users and then hand holding the vendors.

Then I could

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Resolved! HA PORT CONFIGURATION IN 4.1.12?

Hello world,

I have done an upgrade of PA2050 cluster in 4.0.9 to 4.1.12. In 4.0.9 the link speed and duplex for HA PORT was forced.

after the uprade in 4.1.12 I lost a lot of packet and when I tried to do a commit I had an error message.

Commit failed

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Communication within different Trust Zones

Hi,

I am working with PAN-500 3.0.9.

I have configured 2 trust zones and 2 untrusted zones.

l3-trust IP 192.168.0.254/22; l3-untrust 200.78.x.x

l3-trust2 IP 192.168.10.254/24; l3-untrust 201.161.x.x

I need that users from l3-trust get access to servers lo

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Resolved! Block but don't log

Is there a way to block some vulnerabilities or spyware without logging them? For instance I would like to block all the Microsoft SQL Server Stack Overflow Vulnerability but I am tired of them skewing some of our charts and stats. it looks like I ca

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Resolved! LDAP - Group Mapping with Child Domain users

Hi all,

We'd like to use an Active Directory group in our root domain (e.g. "company.com") to control GlobalProtect authentications. Let's name this AD group "VPN Access" (it's a "Universal" Security Group). It contains user objects from the root doma

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NAT rule for IPSEC VPN using NAT-T

I'm running PANOS 4.0.13 and I've enabled NAT-T via the command line. I'm having trouble getting traffic to pass and I assume it must be my NAT policy.

1. I set a destination NAT as the vendor will be the initiator. The NAT is defined like this:

srcz

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Resolved! PAN-OS 5.0.5 :Commit failed

Hello,

I have upgrade my firewall from 5.0.1 to 5.0.5 successfully.

But when I am trying to commit. It is giving below error.

Operation

Commit

Result

Failed

Details vsys -> vsys1 -> global-protect -> global-protect-portal -> portal-tunnel -> client-confi

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Resolved! Question Regarding Reporting

Hi All!

I'm responsible for Security Analysis at a Telecommunications company up in New England. We've recently deployed Palo Alto firewalls to all sites, and I am currently going through PDF Reports manually while we get Splunk installed.

One thing th

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