It has been a lonnnnng time since I have posted. That is my fault. Sometimes you need to relax. I relaxed, a LOT and got fat in the process. I am back now! and FortiOS 6.6 which is upcoming in the next few months will have LTS (long term support) […]
Technical Support Organization Overview This section explains how Fortinet’s technical support works, as well as how you can easily create an account to get technical support for when issues arise that you cannot solve yourself. This section contains the following topics: Fortinet Global Customer Services Organization Creating an account […]
Interfaces Interfaces, both physical and virtual, enable traffic to flow to and from the internal network, and the Internet and between internal networks. The FortiGate unit has a number of options for setting up interfaces and groupings of subnetworks that can scale to a company’s growing requirements. This chapter […]
Traffic Shaping Policies New Traffic Shaper Policy Configuration Method (269943) Previously, traffic shapers were configured in Policy & Objects > Objects > Traffic Shapers and then applied in security policies under Policy & Objects > Policy > IPv4 . In FortiOS 5.4, traffic shapers are now configured in a new […]
Sometimes, after a long day of work, the need to vent is so powerful that you can’t overcome it. Well, today is one of those days so I figured I would bless you guys with a little bit of information. If you use a Dell Sonic Wall…..I pity you for […]
HA heartbeat traffic set to the same priority level as data traffic Local out traffic, including HA heartbeat traffic, is now set to high priority to make sure it is processed at the same priority level as data traffic. This change has been made because HA heartbeat traffic can be […]
Firewall local-in policies are supported for the dedicated HA management interface To add local in polices for the dedicated management interface, enable ha-mgmt-inft-only and set intf to any. Enabling ha-mgmt-intf-only means the local-in policy applies only to the VDOM that contains the dedicated HA management interface. config firewall local-in-policy edit […]
I saw this post over on the Fortinet Support forums and wanted to cross post it here in case no one has experienced this issue. Always check the web filter and make sure domains are rated properly! Some situations it makes sense to allow websites if they are unrated or […]