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What exactly is Auto IPSec Request?

When configuring an Interface in System > Network > Interface below the Administrative Access you also get the option to enable "Auto IPSec Request".

What is it? So far neither Google nor any FortiNet Ressource brought any insight.

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Christopher_McMullan

To paraphrase terribly what I've seen come through our internal forums over the last week, I finally found out that Auto-IPsec was designed in situations where a FortiManager was *not* used to centrally push out configuration changes concerning VPN settings to both tunnel endpoints.

 

The idea is, with a policy-based VPN (I haven't seen anything to prove it applies to interface-based VPNs as well), if a change is made on the responder side once a tunnel is already established, the change can be communicated to the initiator so that both will maintain their connection.

 

Does that help?

Regards, Chris McMullan Fortinet Ottawa

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Christopher_McMullan

To paraphrase terribly what I've seen come through our internal forums over the last week, I finally found out that Auto-IPsec was designed in situations where a FortiManager was *not* used to centrally push out configuration changes concerning VPN settings to both tunnel endpoints.

 

The idea is, with a policy-based VPN (I haven't seen anything to prove it applies to interface-based VPNs as well), if a change is made on the responder side once a tunnel is already established, the change can be communicated to the initiator so that both will maintain their connection.

 

Does that help?

Regards, Chris McMullan Fortinet Ottawa

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