Hi XG Community!

We're pleased to announce the public Early Access Program release of Sophos Connect 1.1!

The VPN Client is now available from within the WebAdmin of your XG Firewall.

What's New in EAP Sophos Connect 1.1

Auto connect on changes to Network Connectivity

Sophos Connect will automatically determine if the user is connected to an inside or outside (guest) network. If on the guest network, then the VPN tunnel is automatically enabled with saved user credentials if available or else prompt the user for credentials or OTP.

Notifications and Error reporting

Display popup notifications and change the Sophos Connect ICON app state (normal, warning or error) to alert the user when the tunnel is established, disabled or fails to connect.

Dead-peer-detection (DPD)

DPD mechanism is used by Sophos Connect when there is unidirectional traffic. When Sophos Connect does not receive response from the gateway for configured dpd delay duration, it will send a R-U-There message to the gateway. If the gateway does not respond to these messages then after dpd timeout (currently configured to 200 seconds), it will delete the VPN tunnel and reinitiate to build a new VPN tunnel. This mechanism automatically rebuilds the tunnel after a gateway reboots while the VPN tunnel with Sophos Connect was active.

Upgraded to latest strongSwan

Upgrade to the current stable release (5.7.1) of strongSwan.

DNS Suffix option for auto-connect

Configure DNS suffix to determine if the Sophos Connect user is on the inside or guest network. Prior to this release the admin could configure a host IP address or a FQDN.

A feature is not working as expected? You have found a bug?

[Update] Sophos Connect EAP is now officially supported starting with v1.1 MR-1. Please contact Sophos Support if you experience any issues.

We have also created this new community group for Sophos Connect discussion.

Issues Resolved