Category Archives: Fortinet

Fortigate HA Back-to-Back Gotchas

Recently, I had a customer that deployed two sets of HA Fortigates at two separate locations. Additionally, the customer had…

By Manny Fernandez

October 4, 2018

Basic FortiSwitch Set Up

I recieved a FortiSwitch 248E-FPOE switch for my lab. The initial config is very similar to the Fortigate you can…

By Manny Fernandez

September 3, 2018

IKEv2 Dynamic Remote Fortigate to Head-In ASA

Customer had a Cisco ASA 5516-X that we used to replace aging 5510’s. I told the customer that we would…

By Manny Fernandez

September 1, 2018

Wired Captive Portal with Fortigate

Use Case: Customer wanted to have their devices that are authenticated to AD, egress to the Internet without needing to…

By Manny Fernandez

August 31, 2018

Remote Access VPN with ASA as a client

Today I had a customer that was buying two Fortigate 500Es for their datacenter but had some remote offices outside…

By Manny Fernandez

May 22, 2018

External Resources FortiOS 6.0

FortiOS has implemented the long awaited feature of dynamic block lists from external sources such as DShield and others. There…

By Manny Fernandez

April 14, 2018

Fortigate SSL Decryption with Microsoft CA Server

This article has a prequel to it which shows how to deploy the CA server where this article assumes you…

By Manny Fernandez

April 10, 2018

Fortigate ‘HA’ configuration explained

Last month I wrote a blog post about HA on the ASA. Today, I am writting one on Fortigate HA.…

By Manny Fernandez

March 12, 2018

Negate Source, Destination or Service

I started working on Firewalls back in the early 90’s. I started on Checkpoint Firewall-1 running on AIX. I soon…

By Manny Fernandez

February 4, 2018

SIP Application Layer Gateway – Cisco and Fortinet

SIP ALG is a feature where the firewall will inspect the SIP packets as they egresses the firewall Purpose of…

By Manny Fernandez

January 23, 2018

Fortigate CLI Tips and Tricks

I am a CLI guy. Make no mistake, I like the GUI but at the end of the day, I…

By Manny Fernandez

December 12, 2017

Forticloud 3.2 for APs

Fortinet’s FortiCloud was introduced to provide customers the ability to manage their device entirely from the cloud. This post will…

By Manny Fernandez

December 2, 2017

IKEv1 & IKEv2

I have been dealing with VPNs for the past 20 Years. Primarily I have used IKEv1 as it was the…

By Manny Fernandez

December 1, 2017

Upgrading FortiSIEM from 4.9 to 4.10

You will need: • Internet access • SSH or Console Access to the FortiSIEM VM • A licensed 4.9 FortiSIEM…

By Manny Fernandez

October 24, 2017

VPNs on Fortinet Fortigate

  Yesterday I had to troubleshoot a bunch of VPNs on a Fortigate. It was a migration from ASA to…

By Manny Fernandez

November 26, 2016

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