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Category: Consulting Stories

FortiRPS 100 in the wild!

For those of you that have never seen one in the wild before, this is a FortiRPS (it’s the white box closest to us with the black and yellow cables coming out of it). It connects to the FortiGates and does exactly what you think a Forti Redundant Power Supply […]

September 10, 2019September 10, 2019 Consulting Stories, FortiRPS, Tips and Tricks No Comments

7060E Blade Replacement Shenanigans

Just talking about some cool shenanigans I ran into while replacing a blade from a 7060E chassis.

September 3, 2019 Consulting Stories, FortiGate, FortinetGURU Videos, Tips and Tricks No Comments

The Face You Make When Updating Firmware…

This is usually what I look like when updating any type of Fortinet device’s firmware….I’m sure I’m not alone!

December 29, 2017 Consulting Stories, Fortinet GURU 3 Comments

Session Based Network Issues on 7060E?

So if you are running a 7060E chassis in your enterprise and you are suddenly experiencing strange behavior relating to session based traffic, disable the TCP-Options setting in config global. This is on by default and enables the the client and server to negotiate MSS, window scaling, selective acknowledgements, timestamps, […]

December 19, 2017 Consulting Stories, Fortinet GURU, Tips and Tricks No Comments

I love what I do

Technology is amazing. It drastically reduces the size of the world. I love that I get to work with it every day. It’s just a little before 1 AM here in Montgomery, Alabama. I just finished assisting a friend in Saudi Arabia with their FortiGate issue. This friend I met […]

April 30, 2017 Consulting Stories, Fortinet GURU No Comments

Policy Based IPSec and NAT

Think of the little things This is going to be a quick guide on things to check when your Policy based IPSec tunnels decide to not work properly with NAT enabled. Have this client, they were getting ready to migrate a bunch of IPSec tunnels from one of their client’s […]

June 13, 2016June 27, 2016 Consulting Stories, FortiGate, Fortinet GURU, How To, Tips and Tricks No Comments

Route based VPN is WAY better than Policy based VPN

I am in the middle of helping a client absorb one of their clients. This involves moving all of the client’s client’s (redundant I know) IPSec tunnels into my clients FortiGate. This is all fine and dandy. I do IPSec tunnels all the time. Unfortunately for me though, my client’s […]

June 11, 2016June 27, 2016 Consulting Stories 3 Comments

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