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well_done
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April 1, 2016
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Fortigate-Meraki VPN success

  • April 1, 2016
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I didn't find much information on setting up a VPN with a Fortigate and a Meraki SA so thought I would post how I got it to work in case anyone else needs to do the same:

1) Meraki has a well-documented config to use on their end with non-Meraki peers so I will not repeat that here.

2) Create VPN-IPsec-Tunnel on the Fortigate matching the Meraki config parameters in Step 1. All Unchecked: Mode Config, NAT Traversal, Dead Peer Detection, Enable Replay Detection, Enable PFS, Autokey Keep Alive, Auto-negotiate.

3) Create static route on Fortigate from internal subnet to VPN named in step 2.

4) Create policies inbound and outbound to/from internal and remote subnets using the internal and VPN interfaces, respectively.

 

I was working with Fortigate 60C and 40C with FortiOS 5.2.2 and 5.2.5. The two main gotchas for me were Mode Config and the static route.

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    krumbp
    New Member
    November 9, 2016

    Is this still stable for you? 

    I have a Meraki MX 100 and Forti 1500D and have 1 tunnel that establishes but drops with Invalid SPI errors.

    well_done
    well_doneAuthor
    New Member
    November 9, 2016

    That was a temporary connection until we got all our Fortinets switched out to Meraki. So, we no longer have any Fortinet-Meraki tunnels.

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