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?
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Hello,
Port 8013 is used by Forticlient to Connect to the Security Fabric:
Looks like your Forticlient tries to the Security Fabric.
Ahmad
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.
Hello,
Port 8013 is used by Forticlient to Connect to the Security Fabric:
Looks like your Forticlient tries to the Security Fabric.
Ahmad
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?
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.
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!
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