Explicit Proxy in "Policy-based" mode?

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November 17, 2021
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Hi.

I switched from profile-based to policy-based and i cant find anywhere to add a explicit proxy on my firewall anymore? I have search for any features that are not available when enabling "policy-based" but i cant find any mentions of the explicit proxy feature dissapearing.

Any input?

FortiGate

Best answer by peter7979

NGFW policy-based I think is only flow based i.e. you cannot have proxy features

peter7979Answer

Staff & Editor

NGFW policy-based I think is only flow based i.e. you cannot have proxy features

Debbie_FTNT

Staff & Editor

Hi @dontmindme ,

as @peter7979 mentioned, FortiGates or VDOMs in policy-mode are exclusively in flow-mode inspection; the Explicit Proxy feature however requires proxy-mode inspection (inspection mode used to be set per-VDOM even in profile-based mode), so explicit proxy is currently not possible in policy-mode.

A note mentioning that policy-mode means flow-inspection only can be found here:

https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate/6.2.0/cookbook/978598/profile-based-ngfw-vs-policy-based-ngfw

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.