{"id":485,"date":"2020-01-23T13:25:32","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T13:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/?p=485"},"modified":"2020-02-06T15:14:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T15:14:00","slug":"xg-firewall-eap3-refresh-includes-new-nat-wizard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/2020\/01\/products\/xg-firewall-eap3-refresh-includes-new-nat-wizard\/","title":{"rendered":"XG Firewall EAP3 Refresh Includes New NAT Wizard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The XG Firewall v18 Early Access Program is entering the final stages with the release of EAP3 refresh, adding some new enhancements like a new NAT Wizard based on community feedback.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>EAP 3 Refresh-1 is now available for all EAP participants<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s new:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NAT Improvements requested by the community, including a new DNAT Wizard (see more below), Default SNAT, and user-experience enhancements<\/li>\n<li>Route-based VPN<\/li>\n<li>Flow monitoring enhancements for stability, sorting, and UX improvements<\/li>\n<li>Memory optimization and performance improvements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>New NAT Wizard<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>XG Firewall v18 introduces a new, more powerful and flexible NAT implementation that has more in common with the approach being used in many other firewalls.<\/p>\n<p>XG Firewall now features a dedicated NAT rule table that is traversed from top to bottom. While linked NAT rule options still exist for organizations that appreciate that simplicity, you can now create source, destination, or full NAT translation in a single rule that offers more power, flexibility, and visibility.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s new in this refresh of EAP3 is the result of extensive partner and customer feedback and consultation. The team has enhanced the layout to the NAT rule creation screen and also added a convenient and easy wizard to create complete server access rules. These, as well as embedded help content, makes this new feature much easier to use and enables everyone to make the most of this powerful new capability.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s an overview of the new enhancements to NAT in v18:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A new video guide on how to use the new NAT capability is built-in to the new NAT rule tab:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"framed-image alignnone wp-image-488 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/video.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/video.png 2162w, https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/video.png?resize=300,87 300w, https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/video.png?resize=768,222 768w, https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/video.png?resize=1024,296 1024w, https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/video.png?resize=1536,443 1536w, https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/video.png?resize=2048,591 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>New more intuitive layout to the NAT rule screen:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"framed-image alignnone wp-image-486 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/rule.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/rule.png 1840w, https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/rule.png?resize=300,259 300w, https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/rule.png?resize=768,664 768w, https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/rule.png?resize=1024,885 1024w, https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/rule.png?resize=1536,1327 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>New easy-to-use Wizard to create server access NAT rules with just a few clicks:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"framed-image alignnone wp-image-487 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/wizard.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/wizard.png 1778w, https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/wizard.png?resize=300,233 300w, https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/wizard.png?resize=768,595 768w, https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/wizard.png?resize=1024,794 1024w, https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/wizard.png?resize=1536,1190 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Where to get it<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s not too late to join the EAP program, as the product team is in the final stages of polishing the release and incorporating additional feedback from all our partners and customers who joined the v18 EAP.<\/p>\n<p>Help us make this release the best it can be by giving these new enhancements a thorough look. You can leave your feedback in the product or on the forums.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/community.sophos.com\/products\/xg-firewall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/community.sophos.com\/products\/xg-firewall\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Get the latest sales and marketing assets<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Now is the time to get all the latest and greatest\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/partnerportal.sophos.com\/en-us\/blog\/2019\/12\/xg-firewall-v18-resource-center.aspx\">XG Firewall v18 assets<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The XG Firewall v18 Early Access Program is entering the final stages with the release of EAP3 refresh, adding some new enhancements like a new NAT Wizard based on community feedback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-products","tag-early-access-program"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/02\/xg-firewall-v18-1600x-960-horizontal.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}