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Benoit_Rech_FTNT · 10-31-2013

Purpose This article explains why multicast packets can not pass through the FortiGate unit, when a static route was configured to use a VRRP, HSRP or GLBP address to reach a PIM sparse-mode neighbor. ScopeDiagram Expectations, Requirements FortiGate...

Benoit_Rech_FTNT · 10-04-2012

Purpose The purpose of this article is to depict why the FortiGate answers to traceroute on the VIP addresses, while such traffic is not allowed by the firewall policies. Scope Firewall VIP, and traceroute DiagramExpectations, Requirements Some secur...

Benoit_Rech_FTNT · 10-03-2012

PurposeThe purpose of this article is to expose a solution to use Policy Based Routing (PbR) on traffic managed by the web-proxy of the FortiGate.When you enable explicit proxy of the FortiGate, the concerned traffic is "proxied" on the FortiGate. Th...

Benoit_Rech_FTNT · 09-19-2012

Purpose The purpose of this article is to explain how to backup the FortiGate Configuration with Kiwi CatTools, starting with FortiOS 4.0 MR3 Patch11 (4.2.11) and FortiOS 4.0 MR3 Patch4 (4.3.4). Scope Starting from FortiOS 4.0 MR2 Patch11 (4.2.11) an...

Benoit_Rech_FTNT · 08-28-2012

Purpose Configure the FortiGate to synchronize its clock to a different time server, and secure the NTP update using MD5 authentication.NTP protocol:NTP stands for Network Time Protocol. It is used to synchronize the time of a computer to reference N...

Benoit_Rech_FTNT · 09-29-2021

Hello,it could be interesting to know the reason of the "closure". You can get the information from "get router info bgp neighbors xx.xx.xx.xx" where xx.xx.xx.xx is the IP address of the peer. You can also get the status of the connection using 'get ...

Benoit_Rech_FTNT · 09-28-2021

Hello,Create IGMP "service":config firewall service custom edit "IGMP" set protocol IP set comment "IGMP" set protocol-number 2 nextendand then the local policyconfig firewall local-in-policy edit 0 set intf "dmz" set srcaddr "all" set dstaddr "all" ...

Benoit_Rech_FTNT · 09-27-2021

Hello,the KB shows external to internal IPs, but you can apply this KB to internal (or local) subnets. basically, it's doing static NAT between your 2 networks. But, from what you request at the beginning of the post, you need to access server B (192...

Benoit_Rech_FTNT · 09-27-2021

Hello,you can check the routing table using 'get router info routing-table all' and then confirm your assumptions.If you are not sure, copy/paste the output of the commands in the thread.Best regards Benoit

Benoit_Rech_FTNT · 09-27-2021

Hello,By default, IGMP has a TTL of 1, which means it will not be routed by the Fortigate. Moreover, IGMP is not enabled by default on the Fortigate, you have to enable it on each interface which should participate to multicast. For me, there is noth...

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