#Sophos xg home build install
#Sophos xg home build registration
#Sophos xg home build windows 10

In addition to the 2 network adapters on the motherboard, I have 4 other adapters from an expansion card (an old IBM EXPI9404PTL). I installed on my desktop with the following:

(although I did fill up the console with 'yyyyyyYYYY' trying) I resorted to a hard reset on the virtual machine. I ejected the virtual disk and pressed 'Y', but I didn't get a reboot. The wizard just fails if you don't have that setup, so you may have to shut off the machine and swap cables around if you get the order wrong.Īfter about a minute of a blank screen (I was wondering if the installer was broken), I get this prompt to overwrite the entire contents of the one and only virtual hard drive.Īfter telling it to format the drive, it went into this text only installer, which took about 8 minutes.

Again pay special attention to the fact that the internal switch is the first NIC and the external connection is the second NIC.

Here's the settings of the virtual machine: (SULFUR is the name of the machine I'm writing this review from)

#Sophos xg home build windows 10

Additionally, the SSD is encrypted with Bitlocker using the 'new' encryption method that was released after Windows 10 version 1803. The hypervisor running the VM was a Dell Latitude E7450 with Intel Core i5 5300U, 16GB of RAM (2x8GB), and 256GB mSATA SSD, running Windows 10 Pro at version 1803 build 17134.48. The VM had a single 40GB hard drive configured. Since I couldn't find solid articles on whether it has a UEFI loader, I opted for the 'Generation 1' virtual machine that uses BIOS.

#Sophos xg home build install

I had to redo the install wizard because I later found it really wanted to have the Internet connection on Ethernet port 2 and LAN on port 1 - (hard-coded, and the opposite of PFSense / OPNSense.).

It appears to be the same as the license for the free Sophos Home anti-malware on the Mac, so here's some of the highlights: ISO, as is typical, I get the giant EULA. I placed a valid but not 'Business' e-mail into the form, and it allowed me to download a.

#Sophos xg home build registration

Going into this review, I had no idea what to expect, but the marketing material mentions Linux, Intel-compatible, and IPS, so I'll give it a try.Īfter selecting 'Get Started' on the web page, you get a registration page that asks for First/Last name and 'Business' e-mail. I've used both PFSense and OPNSense on my PC which have awesome amounts of bells and whistles, but I thought the intrusion prevention (Snort / Suricata) UI wasn't very intuitive, throwing tons of false positives. I stumbled upon this software by accident while trying to find out if someone studied how much malware gets stopped by third-party antivirus on a Mac (nope, although Av-Test has numbers for Windows Defender and Google Play Protect).

TL DR: The only thing 'Home' about it is the non-commercial license clause - it's really a small/medium business firewall product. I decided to do a quick (experimented for 4 hours) review on this oddball proprietary router / firewall 'firmware', Sophos XG Firewall Home Edition.