Hi there,
Foremost, I am fairly new to networking as well as FortiGates. Currently doing the NSE4 courses and the protection side is much simpler than the routing (as I am even more green to routing!). Am struggling with figuring out how come I cannot access my wireless Asus router. Have tried via ping (it is enabled on the firewall policy), tracert, web page access. To give some lay out of my configuration:
Interface lan1 is WiFi (Interface 10.1.5.1, the router is 10.1.5.2)
Interface lan is my desktop (Interface 192.168.2.99, my PC is 192.168.2.112)
Created an IPv4 policy allowing the LAN interface to communicate with the WiFi interface. I can ping the WiFi interface 10.1.5.1 and I see it is working because the bytes column in the policy shows as incrementing when I ping.
When I go to my desktop web browser and go to my Asus router console web page @ 192.168.1.1 I cannot reach it. But I cannot ping it either. I can go to 10.1.5.1 and reach the FortiGate's web login, which is appropriate for the current config and trial and erroring I am doing.
Some testing I have tried, I know some of this now wouldn't have worked (or doesn't):
[ul]So I think I am on the right track with this being a routing issue; however, I am not sure.
Can of you offer any advise on what I should be doing to configure my FortiGate to allow me to access 192.168.1.1 off of my lan1 wifi interface which is an interface IP of 10.1.5.1 and asus router device IP of 10.1.5.2?
If you have any questions please let me know, happy to help!
Thank you.
Please disregard. I was making things overly complex. I went back to basics and drew out what I was attempting to try. Was able to discover I missed a key piece - how are my Asus Router and FG30E physically connected. It was Port1 FG Interface --> WAN Interface on the Asus. The Asus Firewall was, of course, blocking me due to my physical connection to the WAN port and the functions that are attributed with the Asus OS protecting everything on the other side of the WAN port.
However! This was an amazing learning lesson!
Regards.
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