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Carlos_A_Almeida
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January 12, 2015
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Fortigate sslvpn site-to-site with.... OpenVPN? Is't possible?

  • January 12, 2015
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Hello guys.

 

One client came with this question, if it's possible to do a site-to-site vpn connection between Fortigate and OpenVPN. Since openVPN works only with SSL vpn I think it's not possible, but I can be wrong.

 

Thank you.

    Best answer by emnoc

    Short answer , no.

     

    5 replies

    emnoc
    emnocAnswer
    New Member
    January 12, 2015

    Short answer , no.

     

    Carlos_A_Almeida
    New Member
    January 13, 2015

    Thank you. 

    emnoc
    New Member
    January 13, 2015

    FWIW

     

    I never seen one  commercial vendor deploy  OpenVPN in a  firewall. OpenSource  firewll like pfsense/vyatta ( or whatever there new name is ) do but that's about it.

     

    And OpenVPN is mainly a client-vpn solution and not a l2l but I have seen a few who have successful deploy it in the same fashion as cisco EASYvpn and NAT their local subnet behind the vpn-tunnel.

     

    Ken

    Max1
    New Member
    February 10, 2015

    Is there however a way to connect a site that use an openvpn to a fortigate (sslvpn or ....)??

    Any example?

     

    Thanks in advance.

    Max

     

    pcraponi
    New Member
    February 10, 2015

    Max wrote:

    Is there however a way to connect a site that use an openvpn to a fortigate (sslvpn or ....)??

    Any example?

     

    Thanks in advance.

    Max

     

    No. For *nix system you need use something like Openswan to do IPSec with Fortigate or others appliances.

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