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I'm unable to determine from the tech-docs if PAN has a recommended (or suggested) cable length for those cases where the HA ports are directly connected via crossover cable. Does anyone have any intel on this topic? I've set-up many HA pairs and when using directly-connected HA ports via crossover I typically use a 6' cable. I'm working at a place that uses 1' crossover cables for other out-of-band communications and their standard would dictatate that I use "their" cables on the firewalls. This is probably an old Check Point ghost of mine but "back then" the crossover cables between firewalls were to be at least 3'. Any insight would be appreciated, thank you. Tommy ... View more

the mgmt interface on a 3050 is reaching out to a number of internal host over msrpc (tcp/135). i've not been successful in discoving the purpose of this via the admin guide - is anyone else seeing this behavior? thx, tommyluke ... View more

Problem statement: The Panorama 'context' drop-down disappears. We're then stuck in whatever context we were last in. Occurrence: Too many times (8 times in the last 1/2 day) Work around: Close/open Chrome, reconnect to Panorama. Contextual info: We use Panorama v 5.1.0. Our various firewalls (managed devices) are at 5.0.5. We use Chrome browsers to interface with Panorama. Question: have you experienced this? do you have a fix? Thanks, tommy ... View more

Dear PAN community, When a new 'Applications and Threats' signature is release there are typically two versions that have the same Version name (e.g. 350-1658) but then differ in the File Name and Features description. As a current example, Applications and Threats Version 350-1658 was released on 2013/01/15 and there are two of them, one with File Name panupv2-all-apps-350-1658 and the other with File Name panupv2-all-contents-350-1658. The former is 16MB and the Feature column says 'apps', the latter is 17MB and the Feature column says 'contents'. I'd like to fully understand the purpose of each, apparently unique, release. Thank you in advance. Best, tommyluke ... View more