Help with Migrating WAN Link Manager Settings from Sophos XG210 to FortiGate 60F

[hannq]

Hi all,

I am in the process of migrating from a Sophos XG210 firewall to a FortiGate  60F firewall, and I need some help with understanding the corresponding settings for WAN Link Manager.

In the Sophos XG210, the WAN Link Manager allows configuration of IPv4 gateways, which provides a failover mechanism to shift between available gateways when certain conditions (like a failed ping to a specified IP) are met.

According to the Sophos documentation, this configuration is part of managing WAN connections and ensuring availability through automatic failover to backup gateways.

When researching the equivalent function on the FortiGate  60F, I came across SD-WAN configurations that seem to provide similar features for WAN failover. Could anyone who has experience with this kind of migration confirm if SD-WAN on FortiGate is indeed the correct solution for this?

Any help or insights would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance for your time!

[AEK]

Hello

What I can tell is that SD-WAN is the best way to manage your WAN links, in terms of failover, load balancing algorithms, monitoring, application routing, etc...

You can start here:

https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate/7.2.11/administration-guide/19246/sd-wan