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Dynamic DNS on a Palo
With PAN-OS 9.0 (quite some time ago), Palo Alto Networks has added Dynamic DNS for a firewall’s interfaces. That is: If your Internet-facing WAN interface gets a dynamic IP address via DHCP or PPPoE...
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Misusing Palo’s Captive Portal as a Guest Wi-Fi Welcome Page
I was faced with an interesting customer requirement: An existing guest Wi-Fi should be prefaced with a welcome page for accepting the terms and conditions. Since there was already a Palo Alto Networks...
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BGP Route Filtering with Palo’s Advanced Routing Engine (ARE)
With PAN-OS 11.1, Palo Alto Networks has introduced the “Advanced Routing Engine” (ARE) with its “Logical Routers” (LR) rather than the legacy “Virtual Routers” (VR). The Advanced Routing Engine...
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PANW: Dynamic Routing between Logical Routers
How to route traffic between multiple logical routers aka Inter-LR Routing on a Palo Alto Networks Strata firewall? More precisely, inclusive route redistribution rather than a few static routes. –>...
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Getting started with the APIs from Palo Alto Ntwks
You can talk to firewalls and Panorama from Palo Alto Networks in various ways. The well-known GUI (which I really love, by the way) and the CLI are quite common at first glance. Nearly everyone using...
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Dual-Stack PPPoE on a Palo Alto Firewall
If you want to establish an Internet connection (that is: IPv6 and IPv4) right away from your firewall through xDSL connections, you need quite some technologies: PPPoE and PPPoEv6 (PPP IPV6CP) along...
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Which KPIs to monitor on a Palo Alto Firewall?
We wanted to monitor some of our Palo firewalls from our monitoring system via the API. But: Which enhanced metrics/KPIs shall we monitor? While there are some obvious ones such as interface counters,...
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Palo Alto Networks Announces Strategic Shift to Apparel Manufacturing
Palo Alto Networks, a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, has announced a significant strategic shift. The company will transition from its core cybersecurity business to exclusively focus on...
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Editing Palo Configs by Scripts: pan-os-php
There are recurring cases where tasks cannot be edited quickly and easily using the classic Palo Alto Networks GUI or Panorama. For example, editing multiple policies at once, such as during a zone...
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