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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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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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Speed Test through Palo Alto pair

Hello group,

We are in the process to set up and replace the current firewall with PA-4020 pairs . During pre-test, one thing came up. Using several Speed Test sites, the results are not what we expected, particularly the UPLOAD speeds are far off .

It

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Resolved! Commit - Error

Hi,

I am getting this error.

Operation : Commit


Status : FAILIED


Details : A commit is pending. Please try later.

The issue has happened once before and the only way I could fix it was a reboot, i really do not want to do that, I have waited over an hour

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Proxy block

Hi,

we have some clever students...

they have found if they get a proxy address (prior to joining our network) and add it into their firefox they are getting out on the internet and from what they say bypassing the Palo URL check.

Is there a way I can l

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Exporting translations for an IPAM system

I've been working on automated scripts to export my firewall configurations, gather the NAT translations and reformat the exported data into the XML format used by my IPAM system.

I've managed to automate this on our Check Points by parsing the object

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Resolved! Schedules

Hi,

with schedules, do they apply to the policy or just URL filters?

I am trying to block certain apps at certain times, I just want to confrm in my mind that schedules are applied to the whole policy, effectively switching it on or off at times?

Also w

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djbisbey by Not applicable
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Resolved! PA-2020 OSPF Capacity

Hi,

I've seached the data sheets and discussion forums but could not find any information on the size of the forwarding table for a PA-2020.

We wish to run OSPF on this box and I need to understand the limitations related to the size of the OSPF databa

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adevine by L1 Bithead
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HTTP and sql injection by facebook-mail

Hi all,

We recently found a threat "HTTP SQL Injection Attempt" (ID = 30514) with the application "facebook-mail".

We found that information quite strange. What does it mean exactly?

Was there some patterns (for example a SQL specific pattern) in the ma

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Data filter - Blocking suspicious downloads

For data filtering we set a rule to alert for certain downloads (such as .bat, .exe, etc).  In the monitor log, all alerts are listed as LOW severity.  I have noticed a pattern where a workstation shows a suspicious download such as game.exe or abyz

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Coverage for New IPS Evasion Techniques

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Adobe zero-day vulnerability security advisory

Adobe released a security advisory (APSA10-05) today about a zero-day "critical" vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Reader and Acrobat that can be exploited remotely. For details regarding affected versions and OS, please refer to Adobe's sec
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PA-500 - Auto reboot byitself

Hi Again,

The appliance is auto reboot after running for some time without any rebooting or shutdown. After performing some checking, the system log file shows that "captive_portal: restarts exhausted, rebooting system".

Yes, i did some minor changes o

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