Fortigate Tips and Tricks This article presents some useful commands/tricks that you can do to your Fortigate. Debug Addresses: Many times it happens that we have a lot of firewall policies for one address defined in our address Pool. Let’s take an example: We have “WWW_Server” defined with the IP of 172.18.1.10. To see [...]
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Fortigate Tips and Tricks
January 27th, 2012 
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January 27th, 2012 admin Hello, It this post i will talk about the AntiVirus feature of Fortigate. Since the firewall from Fortinet has a lot of features it is normal that AntiVirus is one of them. The processing of the Antivirus application goes as following: 1. File Filter -first it checks if any files match a file filter [...]
Fortigate Tutorial – Authentication
January 26th, 2012 admin Fortigate Tutorial 4 – Authentication The Fortigate aplience support different types of authentication. Let’s discuss them here: 1. LDAP Fortigate support all servers that are LDAP compliant. It supports up to LDAPv3 Also LDAP over SSL/TLS is supported. One downside of using LDAP is that the Fortinet firewall does not supply any information [...]
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6 Comments »Fortigate Tutorial – Fortiguard
January 26th, 2012 admin Fortiguard Services Fortinet provides a world wide coverage of Fortiguard sevices through the Fortiguard Serice Points. The communication between your FortiGate appliance and the Fortiguard Service Points is possibled on port UDP 53 but it can also be changed to port 8888. Since Fortigate firewalls are placed all over the world, the use DNS [...]
Posted in Fortigate, Fortinet Tags: FCNSA, FCNSP, fortigate, fortiguard, fortiguard services, fortinet fortiguard No Comments »Fortigate Troubleshooting – DHCP
January 26th, 2012 admin All of us have problems sometimes with DHCP, especially if we use the Fortigate it as a DHCP relay server. The following commands are used to best troubleshoot the DHCP process: #diag debug en #diag debug console timestamp en The following is used if we use IPSec DHCP relay #diag debug app dhcprelay 7 [...]
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