Fortigate: One to One (Static NAT)
KB ID 0001716 Problem If you have a host that you want to be able to access from the outside of the firewall e.g. a webserver then this is the process you want to carry out. I didn’t find this process particularly intuitive and it highlighted why I don’t like GUI management interfaces, (in 6.4 the menu names have changed, this rendering a million blog pages inaccurate!) I’m setting this up in EVE-NG on the work bench...
EVE-NG Deploying Fortigate v6 Firewalls
KB ID 0001714 Problem The firm I work for are looking at a replacement for Cisco ASA as their preferred firewall of choice. We are looking at Fortinet to fill this gap, but as a product/solution it’s something I know very little about. So the best way to learn is to deploy and play with, and the test bench weapon of choice for discerning technical types is EVE-NG. So can I deploy the newest (v6.4.2 at time of writing) Fortigate...
Fortigate Blank Web Page?
KB ID 0001713 Problem I’ve been trying to deploy a Fortigate into EVE-NG (article to follow) this week. I could get the appliance running fine but when I tried to access the web management console all I got was the following. Note: I have a couple of management VMs in EVE-G (Windows 7 and Server 2012), they had a mixture of IE, Chrome and Firefox on them but still I could not get in? Solution All forums yielded no more info...
Fortigate: Show IP (DHCP) From CLI
KB ID 0001712 Problem I was having some problems setting up a Fortigate (VM64-KVM) firewall, and I needed to know, (at command line,) how to view the address that had been assigned to it via DHCP. View Fortigate DHCP address (from CLI) The syntax required is; config system interface edit ? Note: Dont Forget the “?” at the end, it will not show onscreen as seen below. View Fortigate DHCP address (from GUI) If the GUI/Web...