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Sophos XG Firewall: Packet capture may show violation for DHCP and DHCP relay traffic

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Overview

Packet capture may show violation for DHCP and DHCP relay traffic like the following:

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Applies to the following Sophos products and versions
Sophos Firewall

Explanation

Even it shows violation in the Packet capture but analyzing the DHCP traffic with Wireshark shows that the XG firewall is still forwarding DHCP packet to clients and server. So just ignore that violation message.

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