Basic Traffic Shaping With A FortiGate on FortiOS 6.0.4

Mike (2844 Posts)

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2 responses to “Basic Traffic Shaping With A FortiGate on FortiOS 6.0.4”

1. hi man am new in fortigate thank for this tips . Going to apply a shape on youtube for the all network

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2. Did you test this config? I have found that shapping doesn’t work at all in FortiOS 6.x unless you go to the interfaces such as WAN1 and event the IPsec VPN interfaces and set their outbandwidth and inbandwidth values. The Estimated bandwidth in the interface UI is worthless. It is pretty typical Fortinet, the UI doesn’t usually get the job done on its own defaults you must go to the CLI to get some of the most basic functions to work. Another example is hairpining traffic, can’t do that in the UI either. This stuff is fine for a network engineer that is used to complexity, but for the average IT guy that has 50 different platforms to worry about its ridiculous.

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