Fortinet 101F - Management Interface

[Ali999]

HI Everyone,

I have just acquired this Fortinet Firewall for the purpose of site to site VPN between two sites and i don't have previous experience deploying it the live network.My questions are very basic and i hope you don't mind answering them. I have tried to gather information from google but didn't get what i want.

1. I have tried to change IP of management interface (10.10.10.x is reserved for management) so that i can access it from within the LAN but there is no option to assign a Gateway IP therefore its not accessible unless i access it from the same subnet. Question is how can i change the IP to 10.x.x.x range and access it from 11.x.x.x or 12 .x.x.x?

2. Can i use port 1 as a local VPN interface to connect to the other site as i have got the IP and subnet, gateway is not required.

our end IP 172.16.x.1 and their end IP is 172.16.x.2

3. Other switch ports doesn't have the option to assign gateway, so how can i assign a static IP Address to introduce the interface to my LAN.

I will appreciate your help.

Thanks

Ali

[sw2090]

There are:

https://help.fortinet.com...verlapping_Subnets.htm

https://cookbook.fortinet.com/vpn-overlapping-subnets/index.html

for handling of overlapping subnetson FGTs.