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Hi All,   I use PA-220's in HA pairs often, and I've always used a straight-through cable to connect port 7 and 8 from FW1 to port 7 and 8 on FW2. I've never had ANY issues with this configuration.    I just learned that PAN says to use a crossover cable when connecting the firewalls directly to one another like I have been doing all this time with a straight through cable.   What's the benefit of using a crossover cable vs. straight through cable? To me, it just complicates the environment and adds another item to keep in inventory. In my opinion, cross over cables are becoming more and more irrelevant as more and more devices are becoming smart enough to reverse the pins automatically.   Thanks in advance. Drew ... View more

I'm trying to figure out if therre's a way to configure GlobalProtect to prompt the end users to accept a logon banner message when they've entered their credentials successfully in the GlobalProtect app. Cisco Anyconnect can accomplish this in the group-policy and it's nice because after a user enters their credentials, they get prompted with a banner message and have to accept the terms or their connection is cancelled.  ... View more

Hello all,   I've been trying to find out if it's possible to assign a hostname to a portal so that clients' portal list on their workstations have hostnames rather than IP addresses. I work in an environment where IP address for different "sites" are similar, so it can be difficult for them to remember which IP goes to a site.    We have this functionality with Cisco ASA's by creating an XML document to attach as a profile for the Anyconnect clients.. Do PA's have this functionality?   I'm working with PA-220's and PA-220R's running 9.0.X.   Thanks. ... View more