Palo Alto firewall and BGP routing

Posted on by David Vassallo

Objective: This article will record the steps taken and scenarios simulated during BGP lab sessions involving the PA 5020. Scenario 1: A single ISP, with an eBGP peering between the PaloAlto and a CISCO ISP router.   The above network diagram shows the basic setup. The objective of this scenario is to advertise the “public” … Continue reading Palo Alto firewall and BGP routing

Lessons Learned: Palo Alto in VWire mode

Posted on by David Vassallo

I recently had the opportunity of deploying a PaloAlto PA-2020 in inline mode within a pre-exisiting network. PaloAlto (PA) refer to inline mode as VWIre –or Virtual Wire-. It worked fantastically well but I hit a snag when trying to access some internal servers. In a nutshell, and greatly simplified, imagine a network setup as … Continue reading Lessons Learned: Palo Alto in VWire mode