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live89
Explorer III
Jun 30, 2020 10:57 AM UTC
Question

ip pool NAT

Hi Is there a way to exclude one ip address from NAT IP pool ? Today I'm splitting the ip pool into two pools and then attach them to the policy ... this is frustrating .. because sometimes I need to exclude more than one IP it would be nice to have this feature

    3 replies

    ede_pfau
    SuperUser
    SuperUser
    Jun 30, 2020 1:16 PM UTC

    Is this a question or a feature request? IMHO you're doing it already the way it's got to be.

    The next feature request would be to be also able to negate the IP range...

    live89
    live89Author
    Explorer III
    Jul 1, 2020 9:54 AM UTC

    Hi @ede_pfau

    Thanks for the response

     

    The way I'm doing it today is frustrating, because sometimes I need to exclude more than one IP, and for that I'm splitting the ip pool into more than two ip pools.

     

    And also I'm not pretty sure about how the Fortigate behave when splitting ip pool into more than one , I mean how it behaves with load balancing the source ip addresses with the NAT overload

    is it using equally both ip pools ? is it using the multiple ip pool from top to down in the fwpolicies ?

    ede_pfau
    SuperUser
    SuperUser
    Jul 1, 2020 9:58 AM UTC

    AFAIR pools are used until exhausted, that is, first pool, then next.

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