Maybe you have read in the “New Features” Guide for 7.4 about this new feature: “Prevent FortiGates with an expired support contract from upgrading to a major or minor firmware release”. Here it is explained that you cannot upgrade your Fortigate to a higher major or minor version (eg. upgrading…
It was not so long ago that Fortinet replaced the old NSE levels with new certification levels. We already wrote an article about this last year in this blog post. Nevertheless, let’s take a look at how you can recertify our new Fortinet certifications: Basically, recertification is pretty simple. After…
Since FortiOS 7.4.2 it is possible to log into your FortiGate WebAdmin locally or via the remote management feature in the FortiGate Cloud using the FortiCloud IAM credentials. The configuration procedure is quite simple and documented in this Fortinet KB article. A very important detail from this article is the…
SD-WAN is a cool feature to configure redundant internet access. But it was designed with load-balancing in mind and this brings some challenges to specific use cases. As an example, while you can use SD-WAN rules to define the preferred path for a specific application/system, it won’t prevent that the…
We are happy to present you the new cheat sheet for FortiOS version 7.4.If you have an idea for the cheat sheet, please let us know in the comments. We wish you good luck with troubleshooting.
PAN-OS Root and Default Certificate are going to expire on December 31, 2023 which will make Firewalls and Panorama to lose connectivity to Palo Alto Networks cloud services.This will potentially cause outages and impact network traffic.
Limited throughput on network devices is a common problem. We handle a lot of cases with thtroughput issues and have written a guide on how we recommend to start troubleshooting in such cases.
Traffic can be UTM inspected on the FortiGate either flow-based or proxy-based. Both inspection modes have advantages and disadvantages. Therefore it is very important to use the right inspection mode for the concerning purpose.
Update – 30. Oktober 2023: We received feedback from our partners that the issue probably occurred again today. Fortinet confirmed the issue, here is their response: Few cases have been reported to us with this issue during the weekend, this seems to be issue with Fortiguard anycast when Daylight Saving…
There are issues with some drivers for Windows 10 and Windows 11 when using IPsec VPN. The IPsec tunnel cannot be established. On both operating systems the issue is related to the driver of the network card. The problematic driver was deployed via Windows Update. In many cases the network…
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