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General Topics
Post a discussion here if you have general questions regarding configuration and troubleshooting for Palo Alto Networks products. Use this forum to collaborate with like-minded security professionals to improve your security posture.
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Post a discussion here if you have general questions regarding configuration and troubleshooting for Palo Alto Networks products. Use this forum to collaborate with like-minded security professionals to improve your security posture.

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BrightCloud to BlueCoat Category mapping?

Is there a more recent Blue Coat WebFilter to BrightCloud URL Category mapping?  I found the document from Jan2011 that lists the categories and the recommended mappings at that time.  However in the last 2 years both vendors have added and removed c

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Firmware 4.0.8 to 4.1.8

I am new to Palo Alto firewalls and I am hoping this a quick easy question for somebody who is more familiar with them. I would to like to upgrade my PA500 to latest firmware. It looks like the latest release is 4.1.8 (I am using 4.0.8). I have downl

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Resolved! Captive portal behavior with Ipads/Iphones

I am using the CP quite successfully.  However, I am running into some strange behavior with the Iphones and ipads.

If I connect a (non AD Bound) computer to the wireless, it connects fine and I get prompted for the captive portal only when I try to g

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Resolved! 46076 ARP issue and 5.0.1

Hey,

Has this been fixed in PANOS 5.0.1 release? It has no reference in resolved issues in release notes to that release. However this KB article says it should be fixed in 5.0.1:

Can anyone confirm that this has been fixed for 5050 and release 5.0.1?

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ARP timeout

Hello,

We have a customer who is facing issue described by this KB article :

I wonder whether it is possible to change the default timeout value which is set to 1800 seconds ?

It could be very helpfull in some situations, and most of the network devices

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ldormond by L3 Networker
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Radius access for MGT conflict radius for user access.

Dear,

we use radius profiles for internal users towards a customer internal network policy server and so. The administration of the palo firewall is done via the MGT interface on a dedicted pvlan based administration network. We want to enable radius

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gejack by L1 Bithead
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Can I use DNS Proxy to Host External DNS?

Hello,

I'm going through my first ever configuration of a PAN-500, coming from the McAfee Secure Firewall (Sidewinder). Our current firewall authoritatively hosts our external DNS records pointing to our MX records, etc, and I wanted to know if it's p

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Resolved! Support SSL/TLS Ciphers supported??

Hello Group

I am looking for the official list of supported and unsupported SSH/SSL ciphers on the Palo Alto Networks solution.

Maybe I am not necessarily looking in the right location.

Thank you.

scantwell by L4 Transporter
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Resolved! Security Profile default actions

Once again I find myself searching for documentation, once again I am disappointed. There have been a couple posts over the years asking to see the magical "default actions" and the standard answer is "here's how, go look yourself"

This is an unaccept

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dsinnott1 by Not applicable
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Product sizing

hi

what is the best way to size an appliance to find which model fits the customer network, is there a tool or a technique for it ? ..

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