Fortigate VLAN, VXLAN, VPN, oh my!
Here’s some highlights if you don’t feel like reading: Be very careful – your resulting config may be passing flood-based routing protocol packets, spanning tree BPDU’s, and any other broadcast Continue Reading…
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Getting a dual stack VPN up with FortiGate and FortiClient
Dual stack FortiClient VPN’s are not fun; and a default massive security hole exists that I’m guessing most CISO’s/CIO’s don’t pay attention to since many people still barely know what IPv6 Continue Reading…
Getting a FortiGate to send IPv6 Router Advertisements
You’d think this would be an easy thing where perhaps a FortiGate unit would behave like a layer 3 switch; add an IPv6 address, it starts sending router advertisements. Nope. Continue Reading…
Policy-based routing on Fortigate with VPN
I’m going to give a very short and sweet summary of this article for those in a hurry that happened across this page by way of some quality Google searches. Continue Reading…
Client VPNs and Fortigate firewalls
I won’t start out with a bad mouthing, we’ll get to that later. Overall, I’ve been incredibly happy with Fortigate’s hardware products, especially the amazing suite of features they pack into Continue Reading…
Booting a Cisco VoIP phone behind a Fortigate firewall
I have a Cisco VoIP phone that I use remotely and to do that, it of course needs to be able to boot up and interact with its mother Call Continue Reading…
Keep losing your ssh session from behind a Fortigate?
If there’s one thing I like to do, it’s leave SSH sessions open to all my frequently accessed systems. If there’s one thing I hate, it’s finding them disconnected when Continue Reading…