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I like the the Idea to configure static routing over firewall objects. This avoids the static route limit on FortiGate Firewall. config firewall address edit "N.203.0.113.0--24" set allow-routing enable set subnet 203.0.113.0 255.255.255.0 next end config firewall addrgrp edit "R.Networks" set allow-routing enable set member "N.203.0.113.0--24" next end config router static edit 0 set gateway …
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Recently, we encountered significant CPU and memory utilization spikes on one of our Fortigate Firewalls. Despite consistently handling around 1.5 million sessions for several months without any problems, the situation took a turn for the worse. The firewall became unresponsive through the Command Line Interface (CLI), and at that time, we hadn't configured a dedicated …
It is a good idea to do basic DoS Protection, even internaly. Configuring DoS policyVerificationdiagnose ips anomaly listReleasing the blocked sendersdiagnose ips anomaly clearLinks Configuring DoS policy This will configure a basic DoS Policy for Traffic with default values and block violations for 2 Minutes. config firewall DoS-policy edit 1 set name "ALL DoS-Policy" set …
Force VPN Tunnels to the CPUFirst you need to force the Encrypted traffic over the CPU. Take packet captures from the GUI It is somehow counter intuitive but we need to take care that the IPSec session is not offloaded into Hardware. This basically the Opposite as described in Ensuring IPSec traffic is offloaded for …
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