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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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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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More granular with Vulnerability Exceptions?

When adding a Vulnerability Exception, is there any way to make the exception more granular? (being able to add the exception along with an IP host or range, source or destination IP, zones, or virtual systems.)  For example, If I wanted to ignore a

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Recommended max user per Platform

Hi everybody,

is there an best practice or recommendation for how many users

you should take which platform?

For example:

until 200 user take a PA-500

greater 200 and less than 800 user take a PA-2020

and so on!

Kind regards

Christian

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Packet Capture instance within Details of Traffic Log

Hello,

What is the significance of the "green down arrow" packet capture within the "Details" field of the Traffic Log? We have no packet capture defined and it only shows up randomly for certain connections.  Is this an automatic output if there are

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Honeynet off of PA

Hello All,

I have just started configuring PAN 4020 for the first time - a newbie - planning to run it as virtual-wire.  However, I was informed that the FW supports hybrid routing - i.e. l2, l3; my question regards a honeynet, that I want to hang off

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Resolved! SSL VPN client support - Apple iPad?

Does anyone know of a way to get an SSL VPN established with an iPad?

I've managed to make it work with XP, Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit) and OSX, but I don't think the iPad is supported.

Is this likely to be on the roadmap, or failing that is there an alt

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dagibbs by L4 Transporter
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Resolved! URL Group Management

Question - I have a default URL profile for all departments blocking a vast number of categories. 

I want to allow contain sites for other groups say sales, admin, IT, surveyors... 

Do I need to copy all the URLs or can I set a profile that simply ad

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djmac by Not applicable
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FTP slow through PA-500

Hi,

We have our PA-500 set up as follows:

Ports 1 & 2 as VWire connected to our firewall with AV and malware scanning

Ports 3 & 4 as L3 for our user traffic, scanning AV and Malware and URL filtering

When a user uses FTP to send files to servers on our D

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lhank by L0 Member
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eDirectory V7.3

Has anyone tried the UserID agent with V7.X?  I know its only supported from 8.8 but has anyone had a go with V7.3?

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Ultrasurf blocking

Hi,

  We have PAN 500 with the firmware version of 3.1.2. It faild to identify the new version of ultrasurf (Ultrasurf version 10.02).How to identify and block the Ultrasurf by paloalto.is there any other way to block it. pls help me.

PAN Agent Settings

We are implementing the PAN User ID agent and we were wondering what everyone else was doing.. did you just leave it as the defaults?

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Bundle CA cert with Captive Portal cert?

Just bought a cert from Thawte and am trying to make use of it for captive portal redirects.  I've run into an issue in that, while the unit can import the host certificate fine, none of the captive portal client's recognize it as it's been signed by

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Resolved! How to setup Captive Portal for Macs and Linux

Hi,

I'm having trouble setting up Captive Portal for our Macs and Linux users.

We have a PA-500 running 3.1.5, with Active-Directory, which is working fine for user authentication.

I've tried setting up a Captive Portal for the remaining users (so we ca

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lhank by L0 Member
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Multiple WAN interfaces

Currently going through a ISP change.  We have the luxury of having both WAN links up so we don't have to do a hot cut.  I'm trying to figure out how this can be achieved.  The set up needs to route requests back out the interface on which they were

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Resolved! HA config

Did I unstand it right, that the PaloAlto firewalls doesn't need virtual and self-ip-addresses for HA?

I just watched the HA config video, but there was no part for configuring the layer 3 interfaces for HA. At the moment we use checkpoint firewalls a

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