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December 6, 2022

Technical Tip: Audio through multicast protocol is not working in the FortiGate

  • December 6, 2022
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Description This article explains the scenario in the FortiGate where the client is located in one VLAN and the phone server is located in another VLAN.
Scope FortiGate.
Solution

While making a call from the client to the server, the user could not hear audio. There is already a configured VLAN to VLAN multicast policy, but for some reason, it is not working.

 

As per this scenario, there is alreadya  configured multi-cast policy. Make these changes in the firewall and check.

 

To prevent the TTL for forwarded packets from being changed:

 

config system setting
    set multicast-ttl-notchange enable
end

 

To enable multicast forwarding in NAT mode:


config system setting
    set multicast-forward enable
end

 

For testing purposes, disable the offloading policy traffic for hardware acceleration if the issue is still present.

 

config firewall multicast-policy

    edit <policy id>

        set auto-asic-offload disable

    end

 

Related document: 

Configuring multicast forwarding

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