Port 8013 trying to talk to gateway

[flipmstr2]

I currently have a Watchguard firewall.

I see that My Computer is trying to reach out to the firewall on port 8013

I am frunning the Forticlient V 6.0.4.0182 to VPN into a handful of my customers.

One customer requires we keep it running constantly to connect to their network.

As such I see the client reaching out to the gateway on port 8013, which gets denied by my firewall.

Why is the client trying to do this?

[aahmadzada · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Port 8013 is used by Forticlient to Connect to the Security Fabric:

https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate/6.0.0/hardening-your-fortigate/529217/fortios-ports-and...

Looks like your Forticlient tries to the Security Fabric. 

Ahmad

[aahmadzada · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Port 8013 is used by Forticlient to Connect to the Security Fabric:

https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate/6.0.0/hardening-your-fortigate/529217/fortios-ports-and...

Looks like your Forticlient tries to the Security Fabric. 

Ahmad

[flipmstr2]

Thank you, but why is is appearing to try to talk to the gateway not just get some externally sourced information. Is it assuming the firewall is a Fortinet? and if so, would it then open a bit of communication with it?

[Debbie_FTNT · Accepted solution]

Hey flipmstr2,

FortiClient is checking if the gateway is a FortiGate, and if yes, it would try to connect to report some information (if FortiGate expects/allows this), so FortiGate would offer greater visibility of connected endpoints.

I'm not sure if this behaviour can be disabled, sorry.

[flipmstr2]

No Worries, Thanks for the confirmation. always wonder when you see something hammering your Firewall. I simply allowed that connection as it was bugging me seeing all of those Denies!