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LEO08
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Fortigate DHCP

Hello,

 The Fortigate NGFW we are using in our current location is a 60D. The 60D is being used as the main firewall, DHCP and DNS device. I have been tasked to separate 2 departments into different networks but keep the same DHCP scope for the new networks. My plan is to divide these departments into VLANs however I don’t know if/how you can setup the Fortigate to provide one DHCP scope to separate VLANs. Can I setup one VLAN to relay DCHP to the other VLAN?

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RohiKuma
New Contributor

Hi,

DHCP on 60D could use more memory and can causes disruptions in network as UTM could go into conserve mode due to less memory availability. I suggest please use single dhcp server for one network range only.

The error could be like this "FortiGate has reached system connection limit for 159 seconds"

 

Thanks

Rohit