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jbakker
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September 12, 2022
Question

Loopback IP overlap

  • September 12, 2022
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I'm deploying Fortimail with 2 VA's in HA config only mode. We do want them behind a loadbalancer. The loadbalancers are in the same subnet for the highest performance.

Subnet on Port 1 is 10.240.240.15/23 and the loadbalancer is on 10.240.240.21/32 When I try to add the loadbalancer IP on the loopback adapter I get the error "IP overlaps with other ports".

Is there a way to add the loopback address in the same subnet?

1 reply

nalexiou
Staff & Editor
Staff & Editor
September 13, 2022

Hello,

 

You can try the below:

config system settings
     set allow-subnet-overlap enable
 end

This should allow you configure overlapping subnets

For more details you may refer to the below kb:

https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-Enable-subnet-overlap-to-set-IP-addresses-of/ta-p/191639

 

Best Regards,

Nikos

 

jbakker
jbakkerAuthor
New Member
September 14, 2022

Thanks, but this article and solution is for the Fortigate. This command cannot be used on Fortimail. (doesn't work at all)