Posts tagged "FortiNet"
IP Route Cheat Sheet Across Vendors As a network admin you jump between vendors all day long, and every box wants a slightly different incantation for the same four operations: show the routing table, add a static route, set a default route, remove one. This is a quick reference for the boxes I see most often. All e...
Problem: A newly set up web server with working https cert is not reachable by some people with a certificate error. Discussion: After checking the cert info, you can see that the cert issuer is not the real one but FortiNet. The user is behind a FortiGuard firewall with WebFilter. Paranoid FortiGuard sysadmins may b...
Problem: Two FortiGate firewall show "not synchonized" in the HA status. Discussion: the problem with this is, that FortiGate does not show why it fails. I found no log file with a reasonable error message. So I tried to synchronize the config myself, which is exactly what should NOT be necessary when using HA synch...
After unboxing and starting two Fortigate 100E firewalls the following things failed. Fortinet should really work on QA I think: When starting the Webgui for the first time the box asks to register or login to activate the box. I tried to register and the box asks so many questions, doesn't Fortinet know GDPR ? Don'...