Bandwidth Management

Symptom

Condition / Workaround

Issue

Traffic is dropped when the ingress or egress

Occurs when modifying the ingress or egress

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values for an interface are modified and traffic is

interface values while the interface is passing

 

passing through that interface.

traffic.

 

 

Workaround: Stop traffic on the interface, and

 

 

then modify the values.

 

Bandwidth management application rules are

Occurs when creating a bandwidth management

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sometimes mapped to the wrong global BWM

rule on the App Flow Monitor page and setting

 

priority queue.

the priority to High. The App Flow Monitor page

 

 

displays the created rule with a Medium priority

 

 

setting, even though High was selected.

 

Firmware

Symptom

Condition / Workaround

Issue

The Botnet Service is incorrectly listed on the

Botnet Command & Control Filtering is not

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Security Services > Summary page and the

supported on the SonicWALL TZ 100 and TZ 200

 

System > Status page of the SonicWALL TZ

series appliances (as also reflected in the

 

200 wireless appliance, even though the service

Supported Features by Appliance Model table of

 

is not supported on this platform.

the Release Notes). The Botnet service listing

 

 

indicating 'Not Licensed' on the System > Status

 

 

page should be ignored.

 

An iPad client fails to connect to the L2TP

Occurs when GroupVPN is enabled and

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server if MSCHAPv2 authentication is set as the

configured for an L2TP. The iPad can successfully

 

first order authentication method.

connect if PAP authentication is set as the first

 

 

order authentication method, but fails if

 

 

MSCHAPv2 is prefered. A Windows XP client can

 

 

succesfully connect using MSCHAPv2.

 

 

Workaround: Move MSCHAPv2 to the bottom of

 

 

the authentication protocol list (by clicking on the

 

 

Down Arrow button).

 

The error message “This request is blocked by

Occurs when navigating to the Security Services

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the sonicwall gateway botnet service. Botnet

> Geo-IP & Botnet Filter page and enabling the

 

Responder IP: 125.39.127.25" is displayed.

“Block connections to/from Botnet Command and

 

 

Control Systems” option. For example, when

 

 

trying to view the qq.com web site, the site is

 

 

blocked even though it is not considered a Botnet

 

 

server.

 

The Geo-IP and Botnet Exclusion Objects do

Occurs when enabling the checkbox for Block All

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not take effect, causing DNS query packets to

Connections to/from Following Countries,

 

be incorrectly dropped.

selecting all countries, and entering DNS Servers

 

 

into the Exclusion Object. When a web page is

 

 

accessed and the packet monitor is used to

 

 

capture packets, you can see that all DNS query

 

 

packets are dropped by the Geo-IP filter.

 

SonicOS 5.8.1.2 Release Notes for the NSA 220/250M Series Appliances

P/N 232-000648-00 Rev A

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5.8.1.2 specifications

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