Addresses

Addresses

Firewall addresses define sources and destinations of network traffic and are used when creating policies. When properly set up these firewall objects can be used with great flexibility to make the configuration of firewall policies simpler and more intuitive. The FortiGate unit compares the IP addresses contained in packet headers with a security policy’s source and destination addresses to determine if the security policy matches the traffic.

The address categories and the types within those categories on the FortiGate unit can include:

  • IPv4 addresses
  • IP address and Netmask
  • IP address range
  • Geography based address
  • Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) address
  • Wildcard FQDN
  • IPv4 Address Group
  • IPv6 addresses
  • Subnets
  • IP range
  • IPv6 Address Group
  • Multicast addresses
  • Multicast IP range
  • Broadcast subnets
  • Explicit Proxy Addresse
  • URL Pattern
  • Host Regex Match
  • URL Category
  • HttpMethod
  • User Agent
  • HTTP Header
  • Advanced (Source)
  • Advanced (Destination)
  • IP Pools (IPv4)
  • Overload
  • One-to-one
  • Fixed Port Range
  • Port Block Allocation
  • IP Pools (IPv6)
  • Virtual IP Addresses
  • IPv4
  • IPv6
  • NAT46
  • NAT64
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