Fortigate Hairpin NAT
May02

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...

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Cisco Firewall VPN “Hair Pinning”  Note: Cisco refer to this as a “Spoke to Spoke VPN”
Nov17

Cisco Firewall VPN “Hair Pinning” Note: Cisco refer to this as a “Spoke to Spoke VPN”

KB ID 0000040 Problem You have multiple sites protected by Cisco Firewalls, you establish a remote connection VPN to one of your sites, but cannot get to the others. Solution Normally your remote workers will establish a VPN, with a VPN client (though this principle will also work for remote users with a hardware firewall). In this example we will stick with a remote client using VPN Client software (either using an IPSEC version 3...

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