Fortinet Updates

Dual-Ethernet Operation Dual-Ethernet support enables the controller’s second Ethernet port and provides the ability for it to work either as a redundant interface or a second active interface. If the second interface is configured as redundant, it will serve as a backup interface to the first interface. This means that it will be idle as […]

Configuring Basic Networking for the Interface Use the following commands to configure network parameters, if necessary: To change the parameters of the FastEthernet port, use the interface FastEthernet command. To set up a dynamic IP address assignment for the wireless clients using the DHCP relay server, use the ip dhcp-server ip-address command. To set the […]

Option 43 Option 43 is not part of any Fortinet product; it is a method for mapping controllers. With DHCP Option 43, you can specify a primary and backup controller for APs. With this configuration, the backup controller can be in a different subnet from the primary controller. Option 43 implements redundancy by specifying which […]

N+1 Redundancy The optional N+1 redundancy software feature, when implemented, allows a standby N+1 slave controller in the same subnet to monitor and seamlessly failover more than one master controller. A set of master controllers and a standby slave controller are configured via static IP addressing to reside in the same subnet, and are considered […]

Redundant Ethernet When operating an MC1500, Ethernet redundancy can be enabled at any time by simply following the steps outlined in the following sections. However, for the following controller models enable dual port bonding before activating Ethernet redundancy: MC3200 MC4200 MC5000 (with accelerator card) MC6000 To enable dual bonding, enter the following commands and reboot […]

Time Based ESS You can schedule the availability of an ESS based on pre-define time intervals. By default, ESS profiles are always ON and available to clients/devices. By adding a timer, you can control the availability of an ESS profile based on pre-defined times during a day or across multiple days. To create a time […]

Utilizing Multiple IPs on a Single MAC In current implementations, a typical client machine (or station) is granted a single IP Address per wireless adapter in use. However, with the growing use of Virtual Machine models (provided by VMware, Parallels, etc.), a single station can run multiple Operating Systems from a single client. With this […]

Multiple ESSID Mapping The following configuration example shows how to create three ESSIDs and map them to three different VLANs to separate guest users, corporate users, and retail traffic. The first ESSID, guest-users, is mapped to a VLAN named guest. This ESSID is configured to use the default security profile, which requires no authentication method […]