Technical Tip: FortiGate can create max 32 secondary IP address per interface.
| Description | This article describes that FortiGate can only allow a maximum of 32 secondary IP addresses per interface. |
| Scope | FortiGate. |
| Solution | Sometimes, FortiGate needs to apply multiple secondary IP addresses, especially in the cloud environment.
A maximum of 32 secondary IP addresses can be created for each interface.
The message 'Command fail. Return code -4 (reached the maximum number of entries)' will appear if more than 32 are added.
Enable port forwarding if there are more than 32 internal IP addresses to map.
Note: The maximum number of secondary IPs on each interface has been extended to 256 on FOS v7.2.4 and later versions.
Refer to the following page for more details: Maximum Values Table. The object parameter to search for is: 'system.interface:secondaryip'. |