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bristi
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July 23, 2013
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Fortigate - PFSense IPsec Tunnel

  • July 23, 2013
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Hi, I' ve configured an IPSEC Tunnel between fortigate and another firewall called PFSense. The tunnel is UP and everything is fine. Servers behind the Fortigate firewall can ping the remote host that are behind PFsense and vice versa. One problem that I' m experiencing is that servers behind fortigate can ping the remote gateway (172.16.10.1 - Pfsense LAN Gateway), but not the other way round, meaning that servers behind PFsense cannot ping the remote gateway (192.168.10.1 - Fotigate LAN Gateway). Im sure that this is something that has to do with rules from the Fortigate side. Any Ideas? maybe someone has already ran into this problem. The version of the firewall that I have is Fortigate-200A 3.00-b0737(MR7 Patch 3) Thanks! awaiting for you reply.

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    ede_pfau
    SuperUser
    SuperUser
    July 23, 2013
    Is ping enabled on the ' internal' interface of the FGT?
    rwpatterson
    New Member
    July 23, 2013
    Is this the same behavior as I described in the other post? The admin access must be allowed from that IP subnet in order to receive a PING response.
    bristi
    bristiAuthor
    New Member
    July 23, 2013
    Hi, In the admin access it only allows you to enter 3 trusts. And unfortunately the 172.16.0.0 subnet is not int the list. How can I add more IP' s for the same admin. Thanks.
    bristi
    bristiAuthor
    New Member
    July 23, 2013
    Hi, That works, but is there another solution to add more trusted network rather then creating users and assign trusted hosts. Thanks
    rwpatterson
    New Member
    July 24, 2013
    Why is PING so important? Most folks disable that anyway.
    bristi
    bristiAuthor
    New Member
    July 24, 2013
    I want to enable that for testing only. Btw, I did a firmware upgrade and the new firmware image allow you to add more trusted host. The new firmware works like a charm and has more settings especially on the VPN tab.
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