Basic FortiGate Configuration on FortiOS 6.4.0

The below video goes into detail on how to perform a basic configuration on a FortiGate running FortiOS 6.4.0


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Michael Pruett, CISSP has a wide range of cyber-security and network engineering expertise. The plethora of vendors that resell hardware but have zero engineering knowledge resulting in the wrong hardware or configuration being deployed is a major pet peeve of Michael's. This site was started in an effort to spread information while providing the option of quality consulting services at a much lower price than Fortinet Professional Services. Owns PacketLlama.Com (Fortinet Hardware Sales) and Office Of The CISO, LLC (Cybersecurity consulting firm).

3 thoughts on “Basic FortiGate Configuration on FortiOS 6.4.0

  1. Barry Olech

    Hi Mike,
    Can I ask a question regarding zones. I am hosting multiple hosted phone systems. Each system is on it’s own Vlan. Each Vlan has it’s own external IP address. If I were to put all of my Vlans into a zone, how would I be able to source nat?

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    1. Mike Post author

      You would enable central NAT table (try on lab environment first) or you would have policies for those specific devices that would have custom NATs (which means you lose a little bit of the streamlining of policies you would see with Zones but it isn’t a huge issue for that use case.

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  2. Vic

    Now that a year has gone by since this video and the release of 7.0 is upon us, do you still stand by the use of policy based vs profile based? Why/why not?

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