Site-to-Site VPN Connectivity - block by ISP

Forum|Forum|10 months ago
July 22, 2025
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Hello,

We are attempting to establish a site-to-site VPN between two FortiGate devices located in Egypt and Kuwait. However, VPN traffic appears to be blocked on the Egypt side, preventing a successful tunnel from being established.

Could you please advise if there is a recommended workaround for this scenario?

We are also exploring the possibility of connecting each FortiGate device to a cloud-based service from their respective countries, and then enabling secure communication between them via that route.

We would appreciate your guidance on feasible solutions or alternative configurations.

Thank you in advance for your support.

jiahoong112

Staff

https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate/7.0.0/new-features/508779/fortigate-as-ssl-vpn-client

https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-FortiGate-acting-as-a-SSL-VPN-client/ta-p/224968

You can try to build a site to site sslvpn instead where Fortigate is the sslvpn client. Keep in mind that sslvpn has been deprecated on FortiOS 7.6.3. You can start of by deploying this on FortiOS 7.2.11 or 7.4.7 or 7.4.8.

drivesafelyAuthor

New Member

@jiahoong112

Thanks for sharing the SSL VPN site-to-site setup link. Just to add — the ISP in Egypt doesn't provide a dedicated public IP. Will this setup still work in that case? Are there any alternatives you’d recommend?

Thanks again.