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Category: FortiGate

VOIP application control sessions are no longer blocked after an HA failover

If you were one of those people, like me, that would have application control sessions blocked after a failover on HA then 5.4 may be beneficial for you! See below! VOIP application control sessions are no longer blocked after an […]

March 24, 2016 FortiGate, FortiOS No Comments

FGCP Supports BFD Enabled BGP Graceful Restart After an HA Failover

FGCP supports BFD enabled BGP graceful restart after an HA failover If an HA cluster is part of a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD) configuration where both the cluster and the BGP static neighbor are configured for graceful […]

March 24, 2016 FortiGate, FortiOS No Comments
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High Availability FortiOS 5.4 Before You Begin

So, a lot of people are starting to deploy HA clusters of Fortinet hardware which is awesome. There are however some things you will want to consider before doing so. Here is a drill down from the Fortinet HA for […]

March 24, 2016 FortiGate, FortiOS 5.4 Best Practices 2 Comments

AV Throughput Removed From DataSheets

So, I am sure some of you have been running around a little bit like chickens with your heads cut off about that fact that the data sheets no longer list the AV throughput. Don’t worry, this is by design. […]

March 19, 2016March 19, 2016 FortiGate, Fortinet, Questions 1 Comment

Zones Will Save Your Sanity

FortiGates are interface driven firewalls. Policy is relatively straight forward. Port 1 to Wan 1 Allow HTTP NAT you get my drift. In more complex environments though where you can easily have 5-10 interfaces (even more if you  bring in […]

March 19, 2016March 19, 2016 FortiGate, How To, Tips and Tricks 10 Comments

Dedicated Management CPU

Have a FortiGate that is getting slammed with traffic? Tired of not being able to manage the damn thing because of resource utilization? Boy do I have the fix for YOU! Hah, seriously though. If you suffer from these issues […]

March 14, 2016 FortiGate, How To No Comments

Stop logging of local broadcasts

So as you may have noticed, your logs can often be filled with local broadcasts and traffic of that sort. You can remove these from your logging to help clean things up. This never crossed my mind until I was […]

March 14, 2016 FortiGate, How To No Comments

HA With Different Revision Hardware

So, I have run into some instances as of late where I was forced to use different revisions of the same hardware (two FortiGate’s that match model wise but are different hardware revisions, you know, cause Fortinet likes to evolve […]

March 14, 2016 FortiGate, How To No Comments

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