Tag Archives: Fortigate

Adding Elastic IPs to AWS FortiGate to be used as VIPs

Lately I have been doing some AWS.  I am looking to get certified in the short-term.  I was struggling with…

By Manny Fernandez

March 25, 2020

Remote Access SSL VPN : Start-to-Finish (Video)

Today I wanted to try something new.  Don't know how it is going to work out so hopefully it works. …

By Manny Fernandez

March 21, 2020

Debugging Fortigate GUI from the CLI

Have you ever gotten a strange failure in the Fortigate GUI?  It is sometimes unclear to see what the issue…

By Manny Fernandez

March 6, 2020

FortiProxy, FortiGate & WCCP

Explicit Proxy has been included on the Fortigate since early on.  However because of competitive reason, Fortinet spun off the…

By Manny Fernandez

February 19, 2020

SSL VPN Realms with Custom URLs

Had a friend write up a great article on using custom URLs for realms on the Fortigate using SSL VPNs.…

By Manny Fernandez

February 10, 2020

VX-LAN over IPSec using Fortigate Firewalls

VXLAN is a tunneling protocol that encapsulates layer 2 frames into layer 3 UDP packets.  VXLANs allow you to create…

By Manny Fernandez

January 18, 2020

Policy Disclaimer Option in FortiOS 6.2.3

Yesterday I wrote an article about some advanced policy option in FortiOS 6.2.3.  Here is another one.  In System then Feature…

By Manny Fernandez

January 17, 2020

FAP U431 Not Registering

I had a customer call me about some FortiAPs that where not registering with the FortiGate.  When I logged into…

By Manny Fernandez

January 4, 2020

Updating Images in Fortigate Replacement Messages

The Fortigate firewalls comes with some Replacement Messages.  These various messages are displayed under specific conditions and can be modified.…

By Manny Fernandez

December 6, 2019
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FortiOS AutoScript from CLI

OK folks, time for another quick scripting article.  As many may know, there has been some folks that have hit…

By Manny Fernandez

December 5, 2019

DNS over TLS (DoT) on the Fortigate

I recently wrote an article about the difference between DNS over HTTPS and DNS over TLS and the differences between…

By Manny Fernandez

November 19, 2019

Troubleshooting IPSec VPNs on Fortigate Firewalls

Lets start with a little primer on IPSec.  I am going to describe some concepts of IPSec VPNs. IPSec Primer…

By Manny Fernandez

November 12, 2019

Fortinet Security Fabric in Action

A colleague of mine, Chris Fore, SE in the San Fransisco Bay Area created an amazing video showing the Fortinet…

By Manny Fernandez

November 2, 2019

IPv6 VPNs in Fortigate Firewalls

I have two Fortigate 140Es in my environment.  SecPrimate-01 and SecPrimate-02.  The SecPrimate-01 is using the Mariner color while the…

By Manny Fernandez

October 20, 2019

Using Dynamic Address Lists in Fortigate Firewalls using 6.2.+

In 6.0, Fortinet released the ability to pull IP addresses from a web-server and use them in the configuration.  However…

By Manny Fernandez

September 20, 2019

Installing and Configuring FSSO

Fortinet Single Sign On or FSSO as it is called, is an agent that is installed on a Windows server…

By Manny Fernandez

September 13, 2019

Adding DNS Suffix to your SSL VPN

Many times you set up an SSL VPN connection to the office and you try to connect to mail however, even…

By Manny Fernandez

September 10, 2019

FortiOS Rollback Procedure After an Upgrade

Once again, Matt Sheriff shared a great post on performing a rollback after an upgrade.  This has been in my…

By Manny Fernandez

August 28, 2019

Sudo Command in FortiOS

Any Fortinet administrator that uses Fortigates with VDOMs will tell you that sometime, you need to jump back and forth…

By Manny Fernandez

August 28, 2019

Conditional DNS Forwarding with FortiGate and FortiProxy

Today I was working with a customer that was running FortiProxy in a Proof-of-Concept.  One of the requirements was to…

By Manny Fernandez

August 20, 2019

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