Tag Archives: fortinet

Renaming HA Fortigate Firewall after it is in HA Cluster

If you are 'IT-OCD' like me, you hate to connect to a Fortigate and see that the devices have their…

By Manny Fernandez

February 12, 2019

Using Certificate to Login into a Fortigate

* Sometimes you may want to use a certificate to authenticate to you Fortigate firewall. This is a simple process…

By Manny Fernandez

February 11, 2019

Configuring FortiExtender

For those of you that have not heard or seen FortiExtender, it is a 3G/4G LTE modem that can be…

By Manny Fernandez

February 1, 2019

Fortilink over TCP

If you are not familiar with FortiLink, you should get familiar with it. Fortilink allows you to manage FortiSwitches via…

By Manny Fernandez

January 28, 2019

Initial Setup of FortiDeceptor 1000F

Today I recieved my FortiDeceptor 1000F Appliance. For those who are not familiar with the product, it is deception technology…

By Manny Fernandez

January 25, 2019

Locking down your network DNS traffic using Fortinet

Here is a subject that is near-and-dear to me. I love collecting and analyzing DNS traffic. It is extrmemly informative…

By Manny Fernandez

January 24, 2019

Enhancing the security TO the Fortigate, not just THROUGH it.

The IPS policies on the Fortigate are defined and assigned to policies. This means that the packets match the packets…

By Manny Fernandez

January 21, 2019

Fortigate HA in 5 Minutes

Here is a quick 5 min HA configuration for the Fortigate. On the Master Fortigate config system ha set group-name…

By Manny Fernandez

January 3, 2019

Multi-Regional AD VPN using Fortigate Firewalls and BGP

Disclaimer: This was a client installation. All names and locations have been changed to protect the privacy of the customer.…

By Manny Fernandez

December 20, 2018

Configuring LLDP for Cisco IP Phones on Stand Alone FortiSwitch

As you may or may not know, Fortinet makes switches and they are doing very well from a saturation perspective.…

By Manny Fernandez

December 3, 2018

Extending the FortiAnalyzer HDD

Update: 20191216 If you have deployed FortiAnalyzer (FAZ) in a VM, you will undoubtedly need to extend the hard drive…

By Manny Fernandez

December 3, 2018

Killing a Fortigate Process

The other day, while troublehsooting a customer’s firewall, I noticed a process that was eating up the CPU. CPU was…

By Manny Fernandez

December 3, 2018

Loading FortiOS via CLI

Earlier today, I received a FortiAnalyzer 1000D from a customer. This was a PoC box that was never picked up…

By Manny Fernandez

December 1, 2018

Configuring Multiple Fortigate Firewalls using USB

Use Case: You have multiple Fortigate Firewalls firewalls and you want to configure them pretty much the same execpt for…

By Manny Fernandez

November 20, 2018

TCP Timeout on Fortigate Firewall

Use Case: Municipality Customer. Has a Fire station app that runs through a Fortigate to a server behind the Fortigate.…

By Manny Fernandez

November 15, 2018

Fortigate 6300 – Assigning Services to a particular blade

  The Fortigate 6300 Is a massive platform with so much power, it can be used in multiple deployment methods;…

By Manny Fernandez

November 15, 2018

Configuration Confirmation on Fortigate

I am not a “Juniper guy" but I will say that their ‘commit confirm’ command is brilliant. Every engineer that…

By Manny Fernandez

November 14, 2018

Fortigate Web-content Overide

Use Case: You have web content profiles set up and a help desk that is fielding calls from unhappy users…

By Manny Fernandez

October 28, 2018

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

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