Hello Guys,
I have Fortigate 100D installed on multiple sites, and everything is working. Only difference is that some firewalls have Lan port (which goes to internal network) as L3 Physical Interface with static IP whereas other firewalls have L2 type Hardware switch interface.
Please explain how it makes difference in networking, Which is Industry standard and why ?
Hi,
It depends on the Fortigate's mode of operation. The modes are 2:
NAT mode (aka Router mode) whereby the firewall acts as a layer 3 device that forwards packets. As such, the firewall's interfaces are assigned IP addresses. This is the default mode.
Transparent mode (aka Bridge mode) enables the firewall to act as a layer 2 device that can either block or forward frames. This mode is usually used for deployments whereby the user doesn't want to re-configure his IP addressing scheme of his network to implement Fortigate.
I hope that helps.
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