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WAN optimization with Fortigate

June 20, 2012

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Actually this feature is a feature that I have never seen in Cisco ASA or in Checkpoint Firewall. And after reading the original documentation for that I have realised that it knows much more than I have ever expected! :-) The post contains useful notes from the original doc and my summary for the FCNSP […]

Virtual Firewalls with Fortigate

June 18, 2012

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It is pretty easy to configure more firewalls on a Fortigate box and against Cisco ASA they can do VPN as well! And the virtual firewalls can work in transparent and routed mode independently from each other, this is not possible with Cisco. The missing feature would be what Cisco already has is the resource […]

Dead Gateway Detection – AKA Backup or Redundant ISP Service

June 18, 2012

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Dead Gateway Detection is feature like the backup or reduntant ISP service. In case we have 2 ISP connections to internet – a backup line with smaller bandwith and another used normally – we can use one as a backup internet connection. The topology: 1.1.1.0/24 | | Firewall | | | 2.2.2.0/24 | | | […]

Basic VPN Configuration

September 20, 2011

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In this example I configured a Site-to-Site VPN between 2 Fortigate boxes. It was realised with route based VPN and not with policy based VPN. I route everything through the tunnel here. Topology: ntp server and syslog server 192.168.1.159/24 | 192.168.1.1/24 (internal) myfirewall3 3.3.3.1/24 (wan) | 3.3.3.2 router 2.2.2.2 | 2.2.2.1 (wan) myfirewall1 1.1 Upgrade […]