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      <title>When an IPsec VPN Tunnel is UP, Don\'t Assume the Problem Is the VPN</title>
      <link>https://community.sangfor.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&amp;tid=12165</link>
      <description><![CDATA[As a Technical Support Engineer, I recently worked on a customer case involving a Sangfor NSF connected to a FortiGate firewall through an IPsec VPN. The customer reported that the VPN tunnel was successfully established, but communication only worke ...]]></description>
      <category>Athena Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)</category>
      <author>George Fady</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 08:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>When the VPN Isn\'t the Problem</title>
      <link>https://community.sangfor.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&amp;tid=12164</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Following up on my previous post, the investigation revealed that the VPN itself was working exactly as expected. The real issue was a misconfigured Security Policy. The rule intended to allow LAN → VPN traffic had its source and destination zones r ...]]></description>
      <category>Athena Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)</category>
      <author>George Fady</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 07:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>IPsec Tunnel is UP, But Traffic Still Doesn\'t Work?</title>
      <link>https://community.sangfor.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&amp;tid=12162</link>
      <description><![CDATA[An IPsec VPN showing \&quot;Connected\&quot; doesn\'t always mean applications and users can communicate successfully. I recently worked on a case where a Sangfor NSF established a successful IPsec VPN with a FortiGate firewall. The tunnel came up without any iss .]]></description>
      <category>Athena Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)</category>
      <author>George Fady</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 07:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Ipsec tunnel one way reachability</title>
      <link>https://community.sangfor.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&amp;tid=12157</link>
      <description><![CDATA[i configured ipsec tunnel between fortifate and sangfor firewall the tunnel is up on both side, but sangfor cannot ping to fortigate ip or any subnet , but fortigate have reachability to sangfor network, i am failed to reach customer support, any hel ...]]></description>
      <category>Athena Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)</category>
      <author>Newbie121371</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>VM Athena</title>
      <link>https://community.sangfor.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&amp;tid=12154</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Hey Athena Has VM and there trial Version for it]]></description>
      <category>Athena Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)</category>
      <author>Newbie525041</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>HowTo Enable Bonjour protocol between interfaces on NSF Firewall</title>
      <link>https://community.sangfor.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&amp;tid=12153</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Hi all,
 i need to Enable Bonjour protocol between VLAN interfaces  on NSF Firewall,]]></description>
      <category>Athena Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)</category>
      <author>RobertoC</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Troubleshooting Mindset: 7 Questions I Always Ask Before Blaming the Firewall</title>
      <link>https://community.sangfor.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&amp;tid=12141</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Over the years, I\'ve learned that jumping straight into firewall configuration changes usually creates more problems than it solves.

Instead, I follow a simple troubleshooting checklist before touching any security policy.

1️⃣ Can the client reac .]]></description>
      <category>Athena Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)</category>
      <author>rizzuan</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 02:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>NGAF 8.0.x: Best practice to whitelist a specific HTTPS URL (yuminutrition.com) without bypassing global web filtering</title>
      <link>https://community.sangfor.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&amp;tid=12129</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Hi everyone,

We are currently running Sangfor NGAF (v8.0.47) as our primary perimeter firewall. 

Currently, we have a strict URL and content filtering policy applied to our LAN users that blocks general categories like \&quot;Shopping\&quot;, \&quot;Entertainment\]]></description>
      <category>Athena Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)</category>
      <author>Newbie740788</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Case Study: The Firewall Wasn\'t the Problem — DNS Was</title>
      <link>https://community.sangfor.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&amp;tid=12120</link>
      <description><![CDATA[One morning, several users reported that they could no longer access an internal web application.

The first assumption from many users was:

\&quot;The firewall must be blocking the traffic.\&quot;

Since the issue affected multiple users at the same time, t]]></description>
      <category>Athena Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)</category>
      <author>rizzuan</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 06:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>5 Things to Check Before Changing Your Firewall Policy</title>
      <link>https://community.sangfor.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&amp;tid=12098</link>
      <description><![CDATA[As network administrators, we often receive complaints like: 
 [*] \&quot;The website is not accessible.\&quot; 
 [*] \&quot;The application is down.\&quot; 
 [*] \&quot;The VPN is not working.\&quot; 
  The firewall is usually the first component to be blamed. However, in many ca]]></description>
      <category>Athena Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)</category>
      <author>rizzuan</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>5 Things to Check Before Blaming the Firewall</title>
      <link>https://community.sangfor.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&amp;tid=12096</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Many administrators immediately suspect the firewall whenever users cannot access an application.

Before changing firewall policies, I usually verify these items:

DNS resolution
Gateway routing
Server availability
Client network configuration
Fi]]></description>
      <category>Athena Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)</category>
      <author>rizzuan</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 06:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Outbound calls from Aircall and VoIPline are not working</title>
      <link>https://community.sangfor.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&amp;tid=12078</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Hello Everyone,

I\'m currently experiencing an issue with our firewall. Outbound calls from Aircall and VoIPline are not working, while inbound calls are working without any issues.

Other communication applications, including Microsoft Teams, Zoom,]]></description>
      <category>Athena Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)</category>
      <author>IOS IT</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 02:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>How does the NGFW Custom Webpage work?</title>
      <link>https://community.sangfor.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&amp;tid=12031</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Hihi!

Can I ask for info about how the Custom Webpage works? We have a client that wants to have the Custom Webpage pop up in restricted website in url filtering. I want to confirm whether the Athena NSF requires the authentication policy to be enab ..]]></description>
      <category>Athena Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)</category>
      <author>Ktrippings</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>how to block specific url / website on NSF 3400</title>
      <link>https://community.sangfor.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&amp;tid=12028</link>
      <description><![CDATA[good day everyone.

i have requirement to block specific url / wesbsites on NSF 3400 does anyone what a idea to share with?
any shared information will be appreciated thank you.
-John]]></description>
      <category>Athena Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)</category>
      <author>johnlj</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>WAF configuration for server behind firewall</title>
      <link>https://community.sangfor.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&amp;tid=12027</link>
      <description><![CDATA[My firewall has WAF function. Is there any official documentation, administration guides, best practice documents, or video tutorials related to the WAF feature?

A detailed explanation of the protection capabilities offered by the WAF, including the ..]]></description>
      <category>Athena Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)</category>
      <author>Muqri</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 01:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>How to get a license infor for NSF-7100A-I WAF function?</title>
      <link>https://community.sangfor.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&amp;tid=12009</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Hello,

I wanna confirm under System &gt; Licensing&gt; Security Capabilities and Update &gt; Advanced Functionality 

Do I need this license to use the WAF function? 
SKU - WAFL-7100A-1Y/2Y/3Y/5Y
Can I get confirmation on this?]]></description>
      <category>Athena Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)</category>
      <author>Muqri</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>NSF AI Policy Advisor — smart deployment guidance built into the firewall</title>
      <link>https://community.sangfor.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&amp;tid=12006</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Feature Idea: NSF AI Policy Advisor
Many NSF issues are caused by small configuration mistakes that are only discovered during troubleshooting, such as WAF enabled without HTTPS decryption, incorrect policy order, or missing security settings.
My su ...]]></description>
      <category>Athena Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)</category>
      <author>George Fady</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>⚔️ Sangfor VPN vs Standard IPSec VPN — Which one do you deploy in real projects and why?</title>
      <link>https://community.sangfor.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&amp;tid=12005</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A question that always comes up in projects: should I use Sangfor VPN or standard IPSec?[/backcolor]

Here\'s what I know from the NSF documentation:[/backcolor]

IPSec VPN
• Industry standard, works with any vendor (FortiGate, Cisco, etc.)[/backcolo]]></description>
      <category>Athena Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)</category>
      <author>George Fady</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Network Secure POC/ Implementation Guides, Configuration and Troubleshooting Guides for Pre-Sales and FAEs</title>
      <link>https://community.sangfor.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&amp;tid=10793</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Dear members,
We are excited to announce the availability of a curated collection of technical documents designed to support pre-sales teams and Field Application Engineers (FAEs). 
Whether you\'re working on proof of concept (POC) demonstrations, ha ..]]></description>
      <category>Athena Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)</category>
      <author>Sangfor Jojo</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2024 08:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>NOTICE!! NEW Sangfor NGAF Firmware Lifecycle Policy.</title>
      <link>https://community.sangfor.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&amp;tid=7519</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Sangfor NGAF Firmware Releases


[*]Each customer may purchase up to 5 years of TAC support services from the date of hardware purchase. 
[*]During the support period, customers are entitled to technical support services for supported official fir ...]]></description>
      <category>Athena Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)</category>
      <author>Sangfor Jojo</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2022 02:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
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