Hi,
First time user of the Fortinet Products.
I've followed the instructions in the docs to setup the fortigate as VM in VMWare ESXI 8, so far so good. Got my first WAN/LAN with IPAM setup. All working fine. Now for the part I can't seem to get working...
On the WAN i've got a /29 subnet assigned to me. I want to be able to use routing rules to dynamically assign ports/entire ip to servers in my LAN. The /29 subnet is delivered on a virtual switch. It enters the physical machine on the same cable on VLAN 4000. To make it easier i've created a VSwitch in ESXI at VLAN 4000 and patched it as Port 3 to the Fortigate. I've received all the details about the subnet as follows:
Subnet: | xx.xx.xx.224/29 |
Gateway: | xx.xx.xx.225 |
Netmask: | 255.255.255.248 |
Broadcast: | xx.xx.xx.231 |
When on port 3 i try to enter xx.xx.xx.224/29 as the ip i get the following error: Invalid IP Netmask.
When on port 3 i try to enter xx.xx.xx.225/29 as the ip it will let me save it. Unfortunately this does not work. When i try to ping the IP from my workstation (external to the network) it doesn't let me. (I didn't forget to allow the pings using the checkbox under administrative access). Neither does this work for xx.xx.xx.226/29, xx.xx.xx.226/32, etc. Also tried WAN/DMZ/Undefined, and many more different settings
What am i doing wrong or what can I do to debug this issue a bit more? I'm not bound to the external vswitch hetzner provides and also have a /29 subnet available directly on the primary WAN. I'm currently just looking for a solution.
Thanks in advance,
Kevin :)
