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Ali_Jassim
Ali_Jassim
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February 2, 2016
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fortigate 200D - I want more WAN ports !

  • February 2, 2016
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fortigate 200D - I want more WAN ports ! Greetings to you My OS is 5.2.3 As you know in fortigate 200D there is only 2 WAN Ports [&:] ! what if you need more WANS ports ? I tried to use port1 as WAN port, but the traffic not going through it , If I change the administrative distance of it to lower Number traffic will going through port 1 , but ! I don't want to change administrative distance I want Port1 works as WAN port with default  administrative distance SAME Port WAN1 , so if I create a policy with outgoing interface port1 it should go through port1 without any problem without any changing of administrative distance with default  value Please this is very important for me because I have 6 Links for ISP I need to connect it to Fortigate as WAN Ports attached

Thank you for your time and for you advice

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    emnoc
    emnoc
    New Member
    February 2, 2016

    Any port can be used as a wan port. What are your route set for and have you looked at ECMP and virtual wan link. Both are clearly described in  the cookbook and and fortinet videos

     

     

    Ali_Jassim
    Ali_JassimAuthor
    New Member
    February 2, 2016

    emnoc wrote:

    Any port can be used as a wan port. What are your route set for and have you looked at ECMP and virtual wan link. Both are clearly described in  the cookbook and and fortinet videos

    Dear emnoc,

    This is not what I mean or I need, Links balancing is different from what I need :)  , Imagine that with me, if I want to connect new link to foritgate and no ports WAN are free , so the only choice is using port1 or any port from port switch

    i DON'T Want to use link balancing, I need individual link and use it for something. I hope you understand me

    some time you don't need to use link balancing because YOUR NEEDS Is in different situation

     

    Yours Sincerely

     

     

    ede_pfau
    SuperUser
    ede_pfau
    SuperUser
    February 2, 2016

    Any port can be used as a wan port.
    That's the major part of the answer to your question.

     

     

    In your post you've talked about routing and route weights. One hint here: there can only be ONE default route per system (that is, Fortigate or VDOM). If you need a second default route then you might have to resort to Policy Routing determined by the source addresses.

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