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FlashOver
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August 18, 2014
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Disable Firewall Services in general?

  • August 18, 2014
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Hi. Is it possible to disable the firewall functionality in general so the FGT is acting like a router without firewall session handling? Have here a FGT60C and with FOS5.2 it feals really slow. Because we use it woutout any firewall rules (any-any) in this case, maybe we can help the device to have more free power. is that possible? haven' t found a command on cli yet.

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    emnoc
    New Member
    August 18, 2014
    Yes you can, but the real reason is why? You should trouble-shoot the slowness. The FGT60C is a power router for what it' s designed for. config system settings set asymroute enable end
    FlashOver
    FlashOverAuthor
    New Member
    August 18, 2014
    Only the GUI feels slow. Have also disabled the logging on GUI (think that will switch it of, because I haven' t found a CLI command to disable disk logging for that device).... Will try it tomorrow on a 100MBit/s uplink and will see how it performs. Will replace a Cisco 891 Router.
    Dave_Hall
    New Member
    August 18, 2014
    I agree with emnoc; I would attempt to troubleshoot the slowness issue -- starting with checking for any duplex/speed mismatch on your " WAN" interface. You can do this from the CLI by typing diag hardware deviceinfo nic <interface name> and check for any errors.
    emnoc
    New Member
    August 18, 2014
    fwiw slowness of the WebGUI is a common trait in 5.2 GA on smaller devices. You need to post this in the 5.2GA forum. If they get enough complaints they might look more closer at these issues imho.
    Istvan_Takacs_FTNT
    Staff
    Staff
    August 18, 2014
    Run a few commands first before you disable everything. Maybe a few UTM engines are causing the performance issue, not necessarily the web gui or the firewall. # get system performance status # diagnose sys top-summary if any of them running on high CPU/memory, than check the log; # exe log filter category 1 <--- for Events. Without number for the full list. # exe log display At least you would know what is causing the performance issue, instead of just assuming that it' s the web UI.
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