Using a single external IP to route to multiple internal Web servers on Port 80

[greeves]

Is there a way to use a single external IP address for multiple internal web servers that are using the same port? I know that Microsoft TMG uses a web listener to look at the host header information to determine where to send the traffic to do this and was wondering if Fortigate had something similar. I found one blog post that said it could be done but it did not explain how. I have a Fortigate 200B with firmware 4.0 MR3 Patch 3.

[Carl_Wallmark]

Hi and welcome to the forums, There is some sort of " intelligence" in the MR3 firmware to decide which server to forward to, but i have never tried it, so i dont know if it fits your needs. But look under " Firewall Objects" -> " Load Balancing" -> " Real Server" , there you will find " HTTP host" . I would recommend you to read up on it at http://docs.fortinet.com

[greeves]

Thanks for the quick reply. I think that could work and most likely is what I was thinking of. It appears though that if I monitor all IP traffic, I will not be able to use the host header feature and I can' t create multiple virtual servers with the same IP to monitor http and https. Thanks again for the reply and it has me headed in the right direction. Any more thoughts?