KB ID 0001772 Problem I was asked by a colleague at work the other day, can we replace the Cisco firewalls with FortiGate firewalls for a client? As a business we are heading towards Forti, but before I said yes I wanted to know what the firewall was actually doing before I said yes. On closer inspection the firewall in question didn’t appear to be doing anything too scary, but I...
KB ID 0001730 So my aim was to setup FortiGate High Availability failover in Active / Passive mode. I’m setting this up in EVE-NG and here’s what my lab looks like; Note: Im using TWO connections for Heartbeat/Failover, you can simply use one if you prefer. FortiGate High Availability (Pre-Requisites) Obviously the firewalls need to be the same! For physical firewalls...
KB ID 0000983 Problem I don’t know why this happens sometimes with GNS3, and EVE-NG but occasionally I will get a connection between two devices that constantly complains. %CDP-4-DUPLEX_MISMATCH: duplex mismatch discovered on {interface-name} (not half duplex), with {host-name} {interface-name} (half duplex). For the uninitiated, a speed/duplex mismatch, usually happens when both ends of the link are set differently, or (more...