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about transparent

sorry for bothering you all. I'm new to computer networking. And while I'm building my own system, I'm having some trouble.

MODEM (internet) --- Firewall Palo Alto --- Laptop. This is the model I'm building myself. I was going to use transparent mode

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Resolved! Are there signature release for following vulnerabilities?

Hello
I'm Tomoyuki Nakamura.

Are there any plans to release signature for the vulnerabilities below?.
These were not listed in THREAT VAULT or Security Advisory.

CVE-2024-50379
CVE-2023-34990
CVE-2024-48889
CVE-2024-12727
CVE-2024-12728
CVE-2024-12729

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I am looking to setup and use Palo Alto's Global Protect feature; The question I have is if I have only 1 egress port (WAN) port that is public-facing, can I setup my Global Protect on that egress port or do I need to use another port for

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For those that seek to get SSH Proxy working

Searching the internet it seems that people are looking to enable SSH Proxy and not finding answers. I managed to get it working but must say that the current supported SSH decrytion parameters for all PAN-OS versions aren't the most secure ones so y

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Grace Period for Threat Protection and URL Filtering

Hello,

I'm curious if anyone knows if Palo Alto has a grace period for expired URL filtering and Threat protection licenses.

Thank You,

MJF

GlobalProtect access to local LAN devices

I am fairly new to Palo Alto devices. We are in the process of testing the GlobalProtect client and have set it up without split-tunneling.

I have confirmed this works for web browsing (get the PA NAT address), but we are still able to get to all lo

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Onboarding to Passive HA to Panorama

Hi Everyone,

I need advice on how to onboard the passive HA to Panorama. The Primary is already on Panorama but upon checking, it doesn't belong to a device group yet. I have read some documentation on how to onboard a local firewall to panorama, but

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Resolved! Replicating vSwitch NIC status to a NGFW VM (ESXi)

Greetings all,

I wanted to see if anyone has successfully replicated the status of a host NIC attached to a vSwitch to a Palo Alto NGFW VM in ESXi 8?

Right now, all ports always remain up because the virtual switch they are attached to remain up. I

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Resolved! Deep Packet Inspection and SSL Certificate

Hello, newbie here. One of our clients asked me:

"We have an exchange server which is on site. We need to renew the ssl certificate, I was told that if the Palo Alto firewall performs deep packet inspection, we need to supply the ssl certificate

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