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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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