Technical Tip: Identifying packet drops caused by ...

ashaikh · 10-13-2025

Description This article describes the actual behavior and implications of the dedicated-management-cpu feature on the FortiGate. Scope FortiGate. Solution By default, management-related user space processes like SSH, HTTPS to the FortiGate can be sc...

ashaikh · 09-19-2024

Description This article describes the order of operations a packet undergoes inside the CPU of the FortiGate and how this knowledge can be used to identify packet drops caused by DOS policy configuration. Scope FortiGate. Solution Order of operation...

ashaikh · 05-22-2023

Description This article describes how FortiGate achieves non-stop forwarding using HA and Graceful restart capability. Scope FortiGate running in NAT and HA mode. Solution Diagram: FortiGate HA-------BGP Peer----Router(Graceful restart capable). To ...

ashaikh · 06-17-2022

Description This article explains how to import a configuration backup of a FortiGate-50E to 52E. Scope FortiGate 50E and 52E. Solution FortiGate-50E and FortiGate 52E are quite similar in terms of the number of interfaces and functionality. In a sit...

ashaikh · 07-03-2023

FTD has two packet processing engines and configuration is saved in two different ways by each of them. LINA is the ASA like engine and you can connect to LINA and get "show runn " result to migrate it like an ASA. The snort part of the config will h...

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Technical Tip: Understanding the dedicated-management-cpu command behavior in FortiGate