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arakaci
arakaci
Visitor III
January 3, 2025
Question

fortigate eval lic

  • January 3, 2025
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are there any plans to change current eval lic restrictions ? i used to have ADVPN/SDWAN lab with 6.4 Version, and eval restrictions there were just fine, after 2 weeks expiration i could backup configs and restore them in new lab, and i cloud test almost every  sdwan scenario.

 

new eval license (7.2.1->) has some pretty stupid restrictions    3int, 3routes and 3policies  ?

 

polcies are not that big of a deal (at least for me), i can do any any allow, but with route and especially interface restrictions i am struggling to set up the proper lab.

 

for example in advpn test with 2 ISP and Lan. i already use 3 Interfaces, wan1 , wan2 and lan, then i at least need two additional tunnel interfaces, which can be created but after restart they are gone. i also need remote access to machines so i have to use lan interface for that, instead of creating dedicated management interface, which is kind of messing up routing in my physical network.

 

and for scenarious like bgp peering with loopback interface there is simply no more interfaces left. so it is not possible to test it at all.

    4 replies

    Jean-Philippe_P
    Staff & Editor
    Jean-Philippe_P
    Staff & Editor
    January 6, 2025

    Hello arakaci, 

     

    Thank you for using the Community Forum. I will seek to get you an answer or help. We will reply to this thread with an update as soon as possible. 

     

    Thanks, 

    Jean-Philippe - Fortinet Community Team
      Jean-Philippe_P
      Staff & Editor
      Jean-Philippe_P
      Staff & Editor
      January 7, 2025

      Hello,

       

      We are still looking for an answer to your question.

       

      We will come back to you ASAP.

       

      Thanks,

      Jean-Philippe - Fortinet Community Team
        Askgreaves
        Askgreaves
        New Member
        July 31, 2025

        Any update on this?

         

        I'm having the same problems. I have 3 FortiGate VMs with eval, I need to build and test different SDWAN topologies but with the current restrictions its not possible to have 2 WANs, 1 LAN and a loopback interface. This  means I'm not able to deploy the Fortimanager SDWAN overlay templates.

         

        Thanks

        Tom

         

          arakaci
          arakaciAuthor
          Visitor III
          July 31, 2025

          Unfortunatelly nothing

          boneyard
          boneyard
          Valued Contributor
          January 7, 2025

          totally agree with this. Fortinet is making it harder and harder to test and lab stuff. if effort can be put in this limitation build something that just makes it very unlikely to use in production so it can be used in labs.

            arakaci
            arakaciAuthor
            Visitor III
            January 7, 2025

            with the restrictions on older eval I can hardly imagine that somebody might've used it for a productive environment, but for testing it was perfectly good. so i didn't get it why they even needed to change it at all.

             

            old eval restrictions:

                     15-day evaluation license 

                     1 CPU maximum

                     1024 MB memory maximum

                     Low encryption only(DES) (no HTTPS administrative access) 

                     All features except FortiGuard updates

              arakaci
              arakaciAuthor
              Visitor III
              October 1, 2025

              I think , i just came up with brilliant idea how one can simulate sdwan/advpn just with one physical firewall (in my case it is 60F :)

               

              so i've splited firewall in several vdoms:

              spoke1-vdom

              spoke2-vdom

              hub-vdom

               

              and just with one link to L2 switch and a bunch of vlans i was able to create advpn cloud.

               

              check screenshot for details.

               

              virtual lab advpn.jpg

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