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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Configuring Cisco HSRP
Feb08

Configuring Cisco HSRP

KB ID 0000946  Problem Cisco HSRP: Normally your client machines have one route off the network, (their default gateway). But what if that goes down? HSRP aims to solve this problem by assigning a ‘Virtual IP address’ to your default gateway (or default route). So that IP can be shared amongst two or more possible devices (routers, or layer 3 switches). Above, we have a client 192.168.1.10 that has two possible routes off...

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