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frans
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November 30, 2019
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Fortigate VM00

  • November 30, 2019
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Hi All,

 

It's been 3 days, I tried to setup Fortigate VM00 on Transparent Mode but it didn't work.

I have Lenovo TS140 Server with 1 ethernet card onboard and 2 addtional Intel i350-T2 dual port ethernet card.

I can setup Fortigate VM00 with NAT Mode without any hitch.

Step i have been done is: 1. VM Network is only for VMWare Web Management (Onboard Network Card) 2. VM NetworkFGT1 - VM NetworkFGT4 dedicated to Fortigate VM00 3. Allow promiscuous mode = yes on all VM NetworkFGT1-4

 

I have been reading Fortigate Cookbook, but alas i can not find on how to setup Fortigate VM00 on transparent mode

 

Kindly help me on this matter, thanks in advance

 

Regards,

Frans FR

 

Edit:

Sorry. forgot to mention. Fortigate VM is 6.22 and VMWare 6.0 Essential

    2 replies

    frans
    fransAuthor
    New Member
    December 2, 2019

    Hi all,

     

    this is the procedure I did:

    config system interface 
    edit port1
    set mode static
    set ip 123.123.123.98 255.255.255.224
    set allowaccess ping http https ssh
    set role wan
    set alias WAN
    next
    end

    config router static
    edit 1
    set device port1
    set gateway 123.123.123.97
    next
    end

    config system dns
    set primary 234.456.0.1
    set secondary 234.456.0.2
    end

     

    Then insert :

    config system settings
      set opmode transparent
      set manageip 123.123.123.98 255.255.255.224
      set gateway 123.123.123.97
    end

    Setup IPv4 Policy Downstream from Port1 to Port4 & Upstream from Port4 to Port1 (Ping to yahoo.com from Fortigate CLI is OK)

     

    Then setup port4 as LAN :

    config system interface 
    edit port4
    set role LAN
    set alias LAN
    next
    end

    Setting my laptop IP to 123.123.123.121/27 gateway 123.123.123.97 and DNS to 234.456.0.1 & 234.456.0.2 but no luck.

    i was setting Fortigate 200D Transparent Mode with almost the same way (WebGUI) and it works OK.

     

    Kindly need your help.

     

    Regards,

     

    Frans FR

     

    emnoc
    New Member
    January 10, 2020

    The address for management of the device. How want 2x layer2 networks is the fortigate between? You need to write a topology map of the FGT-VM and layer interfaces. You  have so many things to look at from vnic/vswitch/dswitch/etc.....

     

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