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FXLEWIS
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Fortinet 40F basic setup / connecting to the Internet

Hi -

New to FortiGate and a firewall newbie as well.

 

Current layout

 

Verizon FIOS G3100 router

  • 3 SSIDs
  • 1 with WPA2 @ 2.4 GHZ (legacy)
  • 1 with WPA2 @ 5 GHZ (legacy)
  • 1 with WPA3 # 5 GHZ
  • WAN IP 98.113.x.x (obviously not providing my WAN IP to the public - no offense) 
  • Internal IP 192.168.1.1/24 internal network

 

Forti40F

  • I created 3 SSIDs to match what the G3100 currently has
  • SSID_1 - 10.1.10.1/255.255.255.0
    SSID_2 - 10.1.20.1/255.255.255.0
    SSID_1 - 10.1.30.1/255.255.255.0
  • LAN 1 on the Forti still has the factory IP 192.168.1.99

 

I tested connectivity to each SSID successfully from a laptop but with no WAN connection just to verify security and connectivity to the wifi.

 

I unplugged the G3100 and plugged in the WAN connection to the FortiNet

 

The FortiNet leased a 98.113.x.x address.

 

I tried getting to the Internet with no success.

 

So questions because I am doing something wrong.

 

  1. Does it make sense to to change the IP for the LAN 1 interface to 192.168.1.1 /24?
  2. Do I need to setup static routes from the 10.1.x.x/24 networks and if so what would be the default route?

Sorry to be a noob but you have to learn somewhere :)

 

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GG-USMC
New Contributor

I am assuming that you have already created a static route to the outside for all unknown traffic and also created a security policy for your wireless subnets from the internal interface to the outside interface and also enabled NAT for the internal subnets on that security policy?

FXLEWIS
New Contributor II

I am assuming that you have already created a static route to the outside for all unknown traffic.

NO.  Would that be destination 0.0.0.0 / 0 going to my WAN IP as the gateway on my WAN interface?

and also created a security policy for your wireless subnets from the internal interface to the outside interface

YES

and also enabled NAT for the internal subnets on that security policy?

YES

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