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Central Source NAT and Destination NAT

What are the differences between central SNAT and DNAT and the policy based regular NAT that a lot of people use?

July 6, 2020 FortiGate, Fortinet GURU, FortinetGURU Videos, How To, Questions 2 Comments

Why You Should Use Network Segmentation

I got a question in my email asking me why people should bother using network segmentation. Watch the video below to get more details.  

April 19, 2020 Fortinet GURU, FortinetGURU Videos, Questions, Whiteboard Sessions No Comments

What is the difference between the 0 models and the 1 Models.

FortiGate marketing isn’t always on point. Let’s face it, a lot of people got confused with the naming convention on the E models back in 2016. This covers some basics that will hopefully provide insight so you can buy the right device for you.  

November 9, 2018 Fortinet GURU, FortinetGURU Videos, Questions 1 Comment

Gaming Consoles Having Matchmaking Issues With FortiGates

A lot of people that have fairly strict policy sets end up having matchmaking issues with their gaming consoles when behind a FortiGate. I discuss two methods to resolving this issue. Videos are going to start discussing a lot more architecture driven topics to help ensure everyone is building the […]

October 13, 2018 Fortinet GURU, FortinetGURU Videos, How To, Questions No Comments

Can Greylisting be used in an active-active High availability FortiMail enviroment

Received the below question regarding Greylisting in an Active – Active HA environment. The answer is below as well! Can Greylisting be used in an active/active High availability enviroment (with 2 mx records pointing to 2 fortimails)?   I mean: When an email comes and gets greylisted by fortimail#1, if […]

February 9, 2017 FortiMail, Questions No Comments

How to see errors and discards on FortiGate interfaces

Question: How do I go about seeing interface statistics such as discards, errors etc? I get this question a lot and figured I would make a post about it to help the masses. There is a simple way to do this. In the CLI there is a command called “fnsysctl” […]

November 1, 2016 FortiGate, How To, Questions, Tips and Tricks 1 Comment

FortiClient Issues With Mac OS Sierra

A client of mine stumbled across this issue and after some digging it appears to be fairly common. In my experience, FortiClient tends to have more issues with Mac OS in general. For this particular problem though I have had success by rolling back the FortiClient. Downloading the latest from […]

September 22, 2016September 22, 2016 FortiClient, Questions 9 Comments

Indexing of Old Archived Logs on FortiAnalyzer

Question: The FortiAnalyzer divides logs into indexed and archived. Once an old log is archived, can this be brought back in order to be indexed? Answer:# exec sql-local rebuild-db http://kb.fortinet.com/kb/documentLink.do?externalID=FD36458 Awesome tip from Paulo R on the Fortinet Forums. See the thread by clicking here    

July 2, 2016 How To, Questions, Tips and Tricks No Comments

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