Firewall behind L3 switch

Hello,

I have several vlans routing themselves in a L3 switch, which has a default gateway point to fortigate 100d for off-site traffic.

I'm unable to create policies based by device. The only device I see is naturally the switch.

The way I see it i can:

- stop using vlans and use a flat lan (not preferred)

- Use the Fortigate as the L3 routing (i'm talking about a factory with 100+ devices, concerned about performance)

- use FSSO and use AD groups ( :\ )

I'm looking for advice on better solution.

Thank you

David

New Member

Hello,

If by "device" you refer to Fortigate's device detection method, you have the following options:

1) Replace your L3 Swtch with a Fortiswitch.

2) Use your own Fortigate for inter-vlan routing (as you pointed out).

3) Install Forticlient on your endpoints so they can register to the Fortigate.

I hope that helps.

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