Fortigate 30E

[James_G]

I have a requirement for a small cheap firewall for some small remote sites. The throughput specs of the 30E are enough on paper, anyone with experience. Is the version of FortiOS on the device fully feature matching with the bigger models?

[Alby23]

Datasheet related to Fortinet products are always real, no doubt about that.

The important things is to consider the proper "lines" on the datasheet in order to effectively dimension the Firewall (firewall throughput is not so important if you plan to use UTM inspection, for example).

[James_G]

Not using any UTM or VPN on this firewall (or other CPU heavy features), just plain old packet forwarding. I need to the firewall to handle 80mb/s and the data sheet spec is 950mb/s - so performance is OK. This is not an edge firewall, its sitting on a private MPLS, all the UTM is done at our border 300D units.

My concern is based on feature compatibility, checking that the low end models can do everything the big models can, VLAN tagging on the ports, filtering by device MAC address, VIP / NAT / port forward etc etc.

Anything that will catch me out?