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Network_Learners
New Member
March 26, 2026
Question

dialup hub and spoke with fortimanager

Hi Community,

Can anyone share me the configuration guide to configure Hub and spoke dialup VPN with BGP with Fortimanager.


I wanted to configure this on Fortimanager.

Issue is my Spokes are not getting a IP from Hub during Negotiation.

I found the guide to do this via Firewall but not able to find any documentation to do this via fortimanager.

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funkylicious
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March 26, 2026
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Network_Learners
New Member
March 26, 2026

@funkylicious thanks for the link.

This is not the one iam looking.

 

Iam looking to build a dialup hub and spoke with BGP on forti manager without SDWAN.

funkylicious
SuperUser
SuperUser
March 26, 2026

sdwan can be ignored or rather say, most of the hub and spoke tutorials that you will find either on Fortinet Docs or other blogs for this topic will be with sdwan.

you can ignore the sdwan part of the configuration and just take note of the other things.

for your spokes to get assigned a ip address on the ipsec interface you would need to configure config mode ( mode-cfg ) under phase1 , but i dont think it's really recommended that way. it's easier to assign static ip's to the spokes ( with meta variables assigned in FMG )

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Network_Learners
New Member
March 26, 2026

I have Mode-cfg enable on my spokes and even configured start and end IP on my HUB, still spoke does not get IP from HUB.

Dialup HUb and spoke works fine if i use Static routes and no BGP.

I want this to be working with BGP and Automatic IP assignment on spokes.

 

any documents or guides are appreciated.

 

 

funkylicious
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March 26, 2026
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Network_Learners
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March 27, 2026

I found the solution to this 

there is not single document which explain how to do this configuration via Fortimanager.

 

Can anyone help me how to upload or write my blog in fortigate portal to explain how this works.

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