Category Archives: Routing

FortiOS Link-Monitor Gotcha

When using link-monitor on FortiGate, there is a gotcha you may run into.  Link-monitor will allow you to ping (…

By Manny Fernandez

May 22, 2024

Quick Tip – When your FortiGate is stuck in ExStart when using OSPF

I wrote an article a while back regarding OSPF.  Here is a quick tip I ran into today and wanted…

By Manny Fernandez

October 5, 2021

Troubleshooting BGP on Fortigate Firewalls

In my previous article regarding Wrong Way I did a lot of BGP troubleshooting and thought I would write an…

By Manny Fernandez

January 1, 2020

Adding Static Routes on Different OS’s

Quick post on static routes.  Today I needed to have my MacBook connected to a wired connection after upgrading to…

By Manny Fernandez

October 19, 2019

Reverse Path Forwarding on Fortigate Firewalls

What is spoofing?  Back in the days of security being on routers via ACLs, we would regularly fool the routers…

By Manny Fernandez

September 2, 2019

Route-Map on Fortigate

Often times you need to create a route map on a device to control what routes the device is advertising.…

By Manny Fernandez

May 20, 2019

Configuring OSPF on Fortigate

The Fortigate is capable of doing OSPF, BGP, and RIP from a dynamic routing protocol perspective. It is pretty straight…

By Manny Fernandez

March 9, 2019

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