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Mastering Palo Alto Networks - Second Edition

By : Tom Piens aka Piens aka 'reaper'
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Mastering Palo Alto Networks - Second Edition

By: Tom Piens aka Piens aka 'reaper'

Overview of this book

Palo Alto Networks’ integrated platform makes it easy to manage network and cloud security along with endpoint protection and a wide range of security services. This book is an end-to-end guide to configure firewalls and deploy them in your network infrastructure. You will see how to quickly set up, configure and understand the technology, and troubleshoot any issues that may occur. This book will serve as your go-to reference for everything from setting up to troubleshooting complex issues. You will learn your way around the web interface and command-line structure, understand how the technology works so you can confidently predict the expected behavior, and successfully troubleshoot any anomalies you may encounter. Finally, you will see how to deploy firewalls in a cloud environment, and special or unique considerations when setting them to protect resources. By the end of this book, for your configuration setup you will instinctively know how to approach challenges, find the resources you need, and solve most issues efficiently.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Index

Applying a DHCP client and DHCP server

In most offices, DHCP is the norm when it comes to setting clients up on the network, but for smaller offices, it can be difficult or expensive to set up a dedicated server to provide IP addresses, or your local ISP may require you to connect a DHCP client to their network before they’re able to assign you an IP address and let you on the internet. Luckily, the firewall can also perform these duties. We will start by setting up the firewall as a DHCP client to a dynamic ISP.

DHCP client

To set a data plane interface up as a DHCP client, follow the same steps as you would to configure a regular Layer 3 interface, but set IPv4 to DHCP Client:

  1. Edit the interface.
  2. Set the mode to Layer3.
  3. Select an appropriate zone and virtual router.
  4. Set IPv4 to DHCP Client.

You can choose to accept the default route from the ISP, or set your own in the virtual router, and if you want, send a hostname upstream...