FortiCare Versions Essentials, Premium, or Elite?
KB ID 0001782 FortiCare Versions With the release of the Q2 2022 FortiNet price list, they have decided to split FortiCare up into three different versions FortiCare Essentials: Is the base-level service, and it is targeted toward devices that require a limited amount of support. This service is only offered to FortiGate models 8x and below and to low-end FortiWifi devices. Support includes web only tickets & chat, with next day...
Fortigate Hairpin NAT
KB ID 0001781 Problem Imagine the following scenario, you have a PUBLIC web server and it’s either in the same network your uses are or attached to a DMZ on your FortiGate. So above our users open a web browser and attempts to go to www.ubique.com (1) Their PC will do a DNS lookup for www.ubique.com and (in this case) a public web server returns an ip of 192.168.100.200 (2). The browser then attempts to HAIRPIN to that IP which...
Mac: No Captive Portal
KB ID 0001780 Problem I was on a train today, and they were offering free Wi-Fi but despite me being able to connect, I had no internet access. This has happened a few times to me and it’s when I need to connect to a captive portal to get internet access, then no captive portal ever appears. Note: A captive portal is just a pop up window that you usually see on ‘Free’ wifi services, so you can ‘Pay’ for...
vSphere Disable Timeout
KB ID 0001118 Problem One annoying thing about the vSphere web client is the fact it throws you out after a period of inactivity. Now I know there are straight forward security reasons for this, and on a production environment thats fine. But on my test network theres just me, sighing every few minutes and logging back in again. As the ‘Flash’ client is getting depreciated I’ll concentrate on the HTML5 client, but...
Windows Server 2022 SFTP
KB ID 0001779 Problem Note: This will also work on Server 2019 There’s really no excuse to be using FTP any more, it’s insecure and your username, passwords and data are sent in clear text! So let’s put the secure in FTP and deploy Windows Server 2022 SFTP instead! Note: Yes there’s FTPS as well (and it’s not the same), that adds a secure layer to the old FTP protocol. SFTP is a completely different...