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subramanis · 06-03-2025

Description This article describes the behavior of a FortiGate during route advertisement to an external BGP (eBGP) peer. By default, when advertising a route to an eBGP peer, the FortiGate modifies the NEXT_HOP attribute to its IP address. This beha...

subramanis · 05-12-2025

Description This article describes the solution for the error 'no route to ASBR' when performing OSPF debugging. Scope FortiGate. Solution In OSPF, the Link-State Database (LSDB) stores all received LSAs, including Type-5 External LSAs that represent...

subramanis · 04-28-2025

Description This article describes controlling the received IPv6 routes from BGP on the local device. Scope FortiGate. Solution BGP Outbound Route Filtering (ORF) is utilized to minimize system resource consumption on firewalls that do not require th...

subramanis · 03-24-2025

Description This article describes the configuration behavior when both the source and destination networks are directly connected, and there is a requirement to influence traffic flow using a policy route. Scope FortiGate. Solution The source networ...

subramanis · 02-26-2025

Description This article explains how to prevent east-west traffic from being routed through external interfaces on Fortinet in Azure Virtual WAN (VWAN) Scope FortiGate. Solution In Azure Virtual WAN (VWAN), VNets 192.168.0.0/24 and 192.168.1.0/24 ar...

subramanis · 03-20-2023

Hello Keeran, Thank you for contacting Fortinet Forum There is no simulation based software like Packet tracer in fortigate firewall Thanks Sasikumar.S

subramanis · 03-20-2023

Hello fjulianom, Thank you for contacting Fortinet Forum Please check the below document https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate/6.0.0/handbook/666653/primary-unit-selection-with-override-disabled-default If the Cluster age difference margin les...

subramanis · 09-29-2022

Hi MNabeel, Thank you for contacting Fortinet Forum Yes, you can manage the hardware appliances using FortiManager Cloud & FortiAnalyzer Cloud Please check the below link https://www.fortinet.com/support/support-services/fortiops/fortimanager-cloud T...

subramanis · 08-26-2022

Hi fortijohny, It's postponed to end of this month Thanks Sasikumar.S

subramanis · 08-19-2022

Hello fortijohny, Please ignore my previous email 7.0.7 is expected to be release on Aug 23, 2022 7.2.0 is expected to be release on Oct 25, 2022 ThanksSasikumar.S

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