FortiOS 5.6

Diagnose commands for WAN Optimization The following get and diagnose commands are available for troubleshooting WAN optimization, web cache, explicit proxy and WCCP. get test {wad | wccpd} <test_level> Display usage information about WAN optimization, explicit proxy, web cache, and WCCP applications. Use <test_level> to display different information. get test wad <test_level> get test wccpd […]

FTP Proxy Configuration General explicit FTP proxy configuration steps You can use the following general steps to configure the explicit FTP proxy. To enable the explicit FTP proxy – web-based manager: Go to Network > Explicit Proxy > Explicit FTP Proxy Options. Select Enable Explicit FTP Proxy to turn on the explicit FTP proxy. Select […]

The FortiGate explicit FTP proxy You can use the FortiGate explicit FTP proxy to enable explicit FTP proxying on one or more FortiGate interfaces. The explicit web and FTP proxies can be operating at the same time on the same or on different FortiGate interfaces. In most cases you would configure the explicit FTP proxy […]

Transparent Proxy Configuration To implement the Transparent proxy, go to System > Settings and scroll down to Operations Settings and set the inspection mode to Proxy. Then go to System > Feature Visibility and enable Explicit Proxy. Then go to Security Profiles > Proxy Options, edit a proxy options profile and under Web Options enable […]

Transparent Proxy Concepts In addition to the Explicit Web Proxy, FortiOS supports a Transparent web proxy. While it does not have as many features as Explicit Web Proxy, the transparent proxy has the advantage that nothing needs to be done on the user’s system to forward supported web traffic over to the proxy. There is […]

Explicit Proxy Configuration The following is information that is specific to Explicit Proxy configuration. Configuring an external IP address for the IPv4 explicit web proxy You can use the following command to set an external IP address (or pool) that will be used by the explicit web proxy policy. config web-proxy explicit set status enable […]

Other explicit web proxy options You can change the following explicit web proxy options as required by your configuration. Other explicit web proxy options HTTP port, HTTPS port, FTP port, PAC port The TCP port that web browsers use to connect to the explicit proxy for HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and PAC services. The default port […]

Explicit Proxy Concepts The following is information that is specific to Explicit Proxy concepts. Any information that is common to Web Proxy in general is covered in the more inclusive section of Web Proxy Concepts on page 301 The FortiGate explicit web proxy You can use the FortiGate explicit web proxy to enable explicit proxying […]