Here in this article we will understand what is DNAT and how to configure in fortigate firewall. What Is DNAT: DNAT means destination NAT using this feature we can do destination IP and destination port forwarding. Lets say you have webserver in your internal network hosted on the port 8080 and that web server will have private ip. So anyone […]
Here in this article let us understand how to add ISDB in fortigate firewall policy in place of destination to allow traffic for that destination ISDB. ISDB:ISDB means internet service database which consists of many IP address that domain consists. Fortigate firewall will have many ISDB, like google DNS, amazon which will consists of all of their IP address. Requirement: […]
Here in this article we will understand how to configure static route in fortigate firewall. Static route will let you know how to pass the traffic towards specific interface to reach the destination. Lets say your requirement is want to pass the traffic for specific IP address towards specific interface you can configure static route. Here the requirement is we […]
Here in this article let us learn how SD WAN works in fortigate firewall. Lets say in your network you are having three ISP with different bandwidth, if we don’t have SD WAN feature we cannot have control on traffic and use ISP efficiently. With this feature SD WAN we will be able to manage traffic over multiple ISP’s efficiently […]
Here in this article we will understand how to configure port forwarding in fortigate firewall. Here requirement is, when someone from internet accessing firewall WAN port on “8888”, request should forward to “8884” on specific internal machine. Sample Network diagram as below First we need to define port forwarding under policy & objects >> Virtual IP>> create new>> Virtual IP […]
Here in this article we will discuss how to block website using fortigate firewall. Lets say internal machine is connected to port3 and you are trying to block website “microsoft.com” using fortigate firewall. First lets create webfilter to block “microsoft.com” website, Click on security profiles >> webfilter and then click on specific security web filter profile. Click on URL filter […]
Here in this article we will understand how policy routes will work and how to configure policy routes in fortigate firewall. Use of Policy Routes: Lets say in your environment you have multiple ISP, you want to route specific traffic through specific ISP then you can go for policy routes. Policy routes will have higher precedence than routing table in […]
Here in this article, let us discuss how to configure firewall policy between two different networks which are connected to two different ports of the firewall. First step you need to configure two different ports with two different subnets. Configuring port4 for “192.168.1.0/24” and port5 with “192.168.2.0/24”. Configuration of port4: Under Network >> interfaces section, click on port4 Since it […]