Moving from MPLS to SD-WAN

Forum|Forum|2 months ago
March 19, 2026
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Good Afternoon Colleagues

I hope you are doing well .

When moving from a network with HQ (Datacenter) and many remote branches that using MPLS to Fortinet SD-WAN , Does HQ (Datacenter) & remote branches need to have static IP addresses ?

Best Regards

FortiGate

jpapic

Explorer

Hello,

Normally if you are working with MPLS you will have a static IP, what type of internet are you working with?

ahmedsallam1936Author

New Member

Hello

There is no current setup . I just need to know for any future design / implementation with our customers.

Let me ask the question differently , Does SD-WAN requires HQ (Datacenter) & remote branches to have static IP addresses ?

Best Regards

funkylicious

SuperUser

if you want to establish IPsec VPN connections from the branches to the Hub , then only the Hub requires static IPs since it would be configured to accept remote connections from any IP ( dialup server )

L.E. branches between them can create dynamic tunnels using ADVPN via the Hub and communicate between them

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