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I want to test latest Fortigate VM image on Virtualbox. but I get error “Failed to start !”. Is there some way to start the VM locally?

It appears that if a person purchases a used Fortigate product, that they are unable to download firmware without paying for “support”.Is this the way it is?  Or am I missing something?

Hi i have create lots of VPN definitions in the VPN Manager and assign them to Managed fortigates.  When i try and install the policy i quickly get this error.  "cannot find addr xxxx" "load vpn node x failed".   the object is there but need to be loaded on the GW.   even tryig with a policy with no VPN in the rules also fails.    Any ideas?   

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Hi everyone,I'm currently testing the FortiNAC Persistent Agent in my lab environment. The agent is unable to establish a connection to the FortiNAC server. Below are the troubleshooting steps that I have already completed.Troubleshooting performedConfigured DNS and verified that the client can successfully resolve the FortiNAC FQDN. Modified the Windows registry on the client so that ServerIP, LastConnectedServer, and HomeServer all point to the FortiNAC FQDN (fnac.vss.com). Downloaded and installed the Persistent Agent certificate from FortiNAC on the client. Verified network connectivity: Client can successfully ping the FortiNAC server. FortiNAC can successfully ping the client. Verified that FortiNAC is listening on TCP port 4568. Tested TCP connectivity to port 4568 from the client. Captured traffic on FortiNAC using tcpdump.During the packet capture, I observed that the client sends TCP SYN packets to fnac.vss.com:4568, however FortiNAC never replies with a SYN-ACK, causing th

Hello traveler, I'm assuming you've stumbled upon this post after using very specific search terms and are perhaps now at the end of your rope. I hope I can maybe be your last stop. There's a lot that's going to depend on your own setup, such as which cipher suites you're using, your local and remote subnets, etc. I'm not posting this as a definitive guide to get your swanctl.conf perfect - I'm assuming you've already got it to a place where it "should be working". My goal is instead to draw attention to the changes that took my tunnel creation getting totally dropped and ignored by the FortiGate after first contact, to it actually trying to authenticate. It was of course, very simple, but took me hours upon hours to finally get right. The lynchpin was this: Set Remote auth to PSK. Set Local auth to EAP. Make sure Local is set to round 2, otherwise it sends your EAP credentials before it's asked and the Fortigate shrugs it off. Note that on my FortiGate side, I'm no

We’ve had several cases of memory exhaustion with different processes (node, wad, ips), and are using the “set failover-memory enable” setting to cause the Clusters to automatically fail-over when going into conserve mode. (as well as cpu-threshold)While this is fine as it no longer causes prolonged service disruptions, it does leave the clusters in a degraded state: the failed node usually does not recovery by itself and needs to be rebooted in order to recover from the cause of the memory consumption and restore the cluster redundancy.Is there a simple way (e.g. with automation stitches targeting only the currently active or passive node) to automatically trigger a reboot on the now passive node after such a failover event?Or do we need a feature request to allow automatic reboot of the failed node after a failover that was triggered by an internal event (memory, processes, RIB/FIB, cpu)? We probably don’t want to auto-reboot after an external event (link failure/ping-probe fail).

Hi everyone,I have installed the following FortiGate VM image in EVE-NG:Image: FFW_VM64_KVM-v8.0.0.F-build0167-FORTINET.out.kvmAfter booting the VM, I don't see any option to add or upload an Evolution License during the initial setup.When I click Cancel on the Add License screen, it immediately returns me to the device login window, and I'm unable to proceed any further.Has anyone experienced this issue before?Could you please help me with the following questions:Is this VM image compatible with an Evolution License? How can I upload or activate the Evolution License on this image? Is there any additional configuration required for EVE-NG or the VM before licensing?I have attached a screenshot of the issue for reference.Any suggestions or guidance would be greatly appreciated. 

Is anyone else seeing a large amount of “Domain was blocked by DNS botnet C&C” alerts for valid URLS?the commonality is that its akamai and the common 5 IP addresses are the following.23.223.209.3223.33.44.22823.44.201.23423.57.90.6823.33.40.7 

Hi all, This is my first post on these forums, so hello to everybody :) I'm going to start by asking a question i don't expect many people to be able to answer but i hope somebody who is familiar with BGP and ADVPN can crack this one.  I have labbed up the below scenario and its working great.  Hub/spoke topology with direct spoke to spoke connectivity on demand. http://cookbook.fortinet.com/configuring-advpn-in-fortios-5-4-dynamic-hub-and-spoke-vpns/ I have got abit more adventurous and added a secondary WAN connection to each firewall and added a second round of ADVPN config/VPN's to establish tunnels over the new WAN connection in a bid to achieve ADVPN redundancy should the primary VPN's fail. The interesting bit is that it does work (kind of) - If i shut the VPN's down on the hub it works, both spokes will speak to the hub via the second VPN tunnel and agree new spoke to spoke connectivity over the secondary connection.  However it does not

I am using console server to connect to all my network gears such as Aruba, Cisco, FortiAll Aruba can use micro usb console  and some usb-cAll new Cisco can use mini usb console and some usb-cFew Forti can use mini usb console SerialtoUSB converter already $8 (not including console cable)Good one generic micro usb cable only $2. 4x cheaper SUGGESTIONS:1. could you make all new Forti has microusb or usbc console tq  

Hi!I have to renew or replace a Fortigate 400F cluster, that is working as ISFW.Looking at the specs, the 200G seems to outperform the 400F while being cheaper (more RAM, higher NGFW-throughput.Did I miss anything, or would you prefer to take a pair of 200Gs?Best wishes 

Hello Team I have configured ADVPN 2.0 between two 120G, BGP is up, i can ping both tunnels, but the issues are that i can ping the Hub loopback from the Spoke but unable the Hub loopback from the Spoke   

The port switch connected to the ipphone and if i plug endpoint to the port of the ipphone then the port switch is shutdown even there are no port security in the port switch. Anyone know why?I can see the log from the switch Jul 20 14:30:13: %AUTHMGR-5-SECURITY_VIOLATION: Security violation on the interface GigabitEthernet2/0/1, new MAC address (f4a8.0d3d.5aeb) is seen.AuditSessionID  11C8640A000038317E6EAFB7  switchport access vlan 251 switchport mode access authentication host-mode multi-domain authentication order mab dot1x authentication priority dot1x mab authentication port-control auto authentication periodic authentication timer reauthenticate 180 mab snmp trap mac-notification change added snmp trap mac-notification change removed dot1x pae authenticator dot1x timeout quiet-period 10 dot1x timeout server-timeout 30 dot1x timeout tx-period 10 spanning-tree portfast 

Hello everyone,I'm currently trying to integrate Cisco ISE with a FortiGate firewall for Captive Portal authentication, and I'm running into a couple of issues.FortiGate Network Device Profile In Cisco ISE, I cannot find a FortiGate Network Device Profile when adding the FortiGate as a Network Access Device (NAD). Is there an official FortiGate device profile that needs to be installed, or should I use a generic RADIUS device profile instead? Redirect ACL in Cisco ISE For the authorization profile used during captive portal authentication, Cisco ISE typically requires a Redirect ACL (DACL/ACL). Since the FortiGate is performing the captive portal redirection, what should be configured for the Redirect ACL in Cisco ISE? Should I leave it empty, create a permit ACL, or is there a FortiGate-specific configuration required? If anyone has successfully integrated Cisco ISE Guest/Captive Portal with FortiGate, I would really appreciate it if you could share how you configured it, includin

Hi Everyone,I am currently working on a FortiNAC deployment integrated with Cisco switches and FortiGate firewall, and I would appreciate some advice regarding the captive portal/isolation VLAN configuration.Environment: FortiNAC version: 7.6.x Cisco access switches FortiGate firewall acting as gateway 802.1X + MAB environment Isolation VLAN configured for unknown/non-domain devices Objective:When an unknown or non-domain device connects to the network: Device should fail 802.1X Fall back to MAB Be placed automatically into the isolation VLAN Receive an IP address Open browser and get redirected to FortiNAC captive portal Current Situation: VLAN assignment is working Device is successfully placed into the isolation VLAN Client receives IP address when DHCP is provided by FortiGate Browser can partially reach the FortiNAC isolation portal However, the captive portal redirection is not fully working correctly.Issues Observed: DNS resolution problem Client cannot re

Hey guys, Lately Ive been struggling with certain configuration. In the environment that i am currently working we have around 450 clients in FortiClient EMS Cloud. These station are not user managed but more of the automated clients that need to automatically connect t vpn gw without user interaction.On two separate occasion when ISP flapped on the FortiGate side not all clients reconnected to the firewall.I can force the connection from EMS when disable/enable the endpoint policy but even then not all clients reconnected. I needed to manually connect to the endpoint and click “Connect” on the VPN tunnel to re-establish the connection.The cause is that when the ISP flaps on the FGT side the clients cannot connect to the VPN gateway and will instead show error. You need to manually press connect to try again when the firewall is reachable again, even tho we have persistent connection and auto-connect in the xml file configured. To workaround this I found some articles that there is way

Psec VPN Tunnel COLLINE-LUWUM Inactive Despite Matching Phase 1/Phase 2 Configuration.

Fortinet should review the release of assets not managed by partners, allow them to be included in new accounts, and make updates available to registered emails even if no assets are currently registered.

Hi Community expert, We have issue when connected to FSASE VPN then no internet access at all.Fortinet found the root cause which due to FSASE side had cached the Network ID and when user try reconnect back the VPN, due to different Network ID, it will block the internet connection.Fortinet did not provide workaround for more than 12 days while it affecting our production.We tried to disconnect Telemetry and VPN and reconnect back, but failed.Any expert have home cook workaround on this since Fortinet is not helping? Your kind insight will be really appreciated. Thank You

I have device profiling rule to move all ipphone to IPPhone group. Test the rule manually for one ipphone and the rule is matches, but why the IPPhone group not have any member?   

if we want tio bulid HA for Fortinac then we need sopecial license? Currently my Fortinac located in on-prem and if i want to build the HA can i use 2nd Fortinac on Azure Cloud?

Hi everyone,We are troubleshooting what appears to be a Linux-specific FortiClient Enterprise issue and I would like to know if anyone has experienced something similar.Environment:FortiClient Enterprise Linux 7.4.7 build 5438 FortiGate 7.4.x IPsec VPN (IKEv2) RHEL 9.x and Ubuntu 24.04Behaviour:VPN authentication succeeds. Tunnel is established successfully. Approximately 9 seconds later the VPN disconnects. The timing is very consistent (always around 9 seconds).What we have already verified:Same FortiGate configuration works perfectly with FortiClient Enterprise for Windows. Reproduced on both RHEL 9 and Ubuntu 24.04. Reproduced on both physical and virtual machines. Reproduced on x86_64 (and also ARM64 with 7.4.7 where supported). Client is not registered to EMS. FortiGate logs do not show authentication failures, DPD timeout, IKE negotiation errors or peer-initiated disconnects. The Linux client appears to terminate the session locally after the tunnel has already been established.

Hello all,I'm using SSL deep inspection through my Fortigate (FGT70G with FortiOS 7.6.7). It works well. The only problem is when applications do things that can't be allowed by any rule. So I've configured an explicit proxy on the Fort that does not perform SSL inspection. Some apps have no way to configure a proxy for them. For example, Steam. So I've been experimenting with some Bash variables. My startscript:#!/bin/bashexport http_proxy=http://fw66.tux.lan:8081export https_proxy=http://fw66.tux.lan:8081export HTTP_PROXY=$http_proxyexport HTTPS_PROXY=$https_proxyexport no_proxy=localhost,127.0.0.1/usr/games/steamIt works also fine. The firewall log confirms this, too.My question is what do I need to watch out for to make sure that another application doesn't accidentally go through the proxy when it's not supposed to? Are there situations where this could happen?Best Regards :)

When I went from 6.4.1879 to 7.0.0601 last May I ended up with extra accounts that where setup with super_admin access, like the followingforticloud techadmin_vpn_access_workadmin_vpn_accessfortinet_techplus other ones does any one know how these got in there? I have since removed them and replaced the 100F to the 120G