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Palo Alto 2020 doesn't close session when using AD authentication

Hi,This might be a really easy thing I have missed but when we try to authenticate against our AD users instead of strictly by IP and zone it works fine the first person to log on. But then if you log off and someone else with less privilages logs on they get whatever access the previous person had, which could be a problem especially if the las...

Resolved! what's mean counter url_request_pkt_drop?

Hello guys.I experienced increasing constantly counter "url_request_pkt_drop" when installed PAN to customer. PAN showed that counter means "the number of packets get dropped because of waiting for url category request"So I think that means simply packet dropping related URLs when not resolved URLs. I guess packet dropping of URLs that makes pro...

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Resolved! Backup and restore Config

I have a PA-500 Firewall running software version 4.1 and have to make some rather drastic firewall changes due to changing ISP's and outside IP addressing. I would like to backup and save my configuration, in case I mess something up. How can I take a backup of my current config, and have it ready in case I need to import it back in?I see you...

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What 's meaning of "User '' failed authentication. Reason: Thread limit reached"

Hello,I used Captive Portal in my environment. I found log "User '' failed authentication. Reason: Thread limit reached" show on my system some time when the Captive Poratl page fail to logging in.Which Thread has limited by the system. Could you provide me the trobleshoot step or command line to show the thread limit.Thank you,Wasawath

Skype & unknown traffic

Hello PAN,It seems to me that in order to have skype working correctly - particually with multi-site PA's with Site2Site VPN tunnels in between - it is nessesarely to enable both unknown-tcp & unknown-udp.At least - all our connection problems / delivery delays seems to go away whit the above allowed.But obviously - allowing "unknown" traffi...

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Resolved! Known Malware passing through PA to Client

Hello PAN,Today I had a client get infected with the "Windows Privacy Module" Fake AV, This wasn't cought by either PAN OS or Trend Micro while a MalwareBytes scan found it and removed it no problem. Is there something more I can do to increase the odds of my PA SG in catching these? I do keep th AV software up to date along with the PAN OS and ...

Bvance by • L2 Linker
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Getting Syslog in through PA 500

I have a router just outside my PAN 500, ver 4.0.5. I need to get syslog information in from it for my PCI requirements. Here is my setup:The following objects are defined:INT-NPM Syslog server, IP address 172.15.10.8TWC-RTR Router, 197.148.156.124TWC-NPM NAT address for INT-NPM, 197.148.156.150TWC-NAT ...

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URL logging in TAP mode

I have a business requirement to log URLs visited in an "out of line" manner for reporting and usage. There is no requirement to block URLs and it would be of great advantage not to use VirtualWire at this stage(still in pilot).I understand it is not possible to apply URL filtering rules(block, allow etc.) in TAP mode, and I'm pretty sure that w...

loki by • L1 Bithead
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Multicast Support

Hi Guys,Does PAN support IP multicasting to allow one IP packet to be sent simultaneously to multiple hosts for use in multimedia applications and video conferencing?I did read somewhere that multicast forwarding / routing is now supported from version 4.1.x onwards. Is it true?Cheers...Kalyan

Stateful Package Inspection Features

Hi Guys,I was just wondering if you someone could clarify a few doubts that are lingering in my mind.1. IP Checksum Enforcement - Does PA have an option to enforce header checksums for IP headers and UDP packets?2. QoS - Does have QoS support bi-directional support for DSCP and 802.1pMany thanks,Kalyan

Custom Reports and Wildcards

Hello KPers,My goal: To create a report of top X users who attempt to access blocked categories.My problem: I would like to exclude a set of userids that share a common prefix.What I've tried: I've created a URL log custom report based off of action eq block-url and user neq userid*; This does not output my desired results as the users with the ...

Need help in setting up the email alerts for the Pan firewalls.

I am trying to setup email alerts when the device goes down or the interface goes down. To complete this task, I had configured the email server and under the device tab -- log settings-- critical -- I set it to be forwarded to the email server. Also when configuring the email server profile, under the custom log format, under system I chose the...

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