Because it’s very difficult to take exams at PearsonVUE right now, you may get in trouble regarding the timely recertification of existing certifications. Therefore some vendors have announced an extension for their recertification expiration: PaloAltoNetworks is extending the certification expiration date by six month for Credential holders with expiration date between March 1,…
Corona-Info: Support Links for Home-/Remote-Office and MultiFactor Authentication
Here you will find the most important support links of our vendors regarding Home-/Remote-Office, Dialup VPNs and MultiFactor Authentication:
What’s new with FortiOS 6.2/6.0.8: Update issue with certificate for WebUI
Recently we have had a few support cases where a customer was unable to log in to the firewall via WebUI after the firmware update. But SSH access worked fine. It turned out that during the update process the server certificate used for the WebUI is lost. Config with v6.0.4…
What’s new with FortiOS 6.2: FortiGuard Requests
FortiOS v6.2 has been released in March this year and we are still gaining experience with this version. In this article we would like to draw you attention to the protocol which is used for FortiGuard service communication. Up to v6.0 udp has been used, with 6.2 the default protocol…
New PSIRT-Advisory from Fortinet
Last week Fortinet has released a critical PSIRT-Advisory “Improper check for certificate revocation vulnerability” Unfortunately the article does not give exact information regarding the background or the solution and we couldn’t find further information about the issue, either. Maybe you have more information?
Migrate Fortigate Configurations with FortiConverter
Starting with FortiConverter 6.0, any kind of conversion requires a valid license Fortinet has published a very nice and helpful tool for converting firewall configs from other vendors into a Fortigate configuration file. Also an old Fortigate config file can be used as the source file. So if you are…
CheatSheet – FortiOS v6.0
This week we start with the update of the cheatsheet for version 6.0. The Tech-Team of BOLL Engineering wishes you happy troubleshooting!
Basic Stuff: MTU-Grösse mit ping testen
Die MTU ist immer wieder ein Thema beim Troubleshooten von Netzwerkproblemen. Oft herrscht jedoch Unklarheit darüber wie man die genaue MTU zwischen zwei Endpunkten herausfinden kann. Natürlich ist der “ping”-Befehl hier das Mittel der Wahl, aber mit welcher Ping-Grösse habe ich welche MTU?
Problem beim Service-Transfer von Trade-Up Geräten
In unserer Supportabteilung werden wir oft mit dem Problem konfrontiert, dass Trade-Up Fortinet-Geräte falsch registriert werden und damit wertvolle Services verloren gehen. Zugegeben – das Ganze ist auch etwas kompliziert und deshalb möchten wir hier ein paar Infos zur Situation und zur Lösung des Problems geben: Trade-Up Programm: Fortinet-Kunden haben…
Die Fortigate Cluster ID und allfällige Probleme mit dem ISP
Das proprietäre FortiGate Clustering Protocol (FGCP) ist ein effektives und pragmatisches Clustering-Protokoll. Fortinet verzichtet dabei auf die Verwendung von dedizierten Interface-IPs und einer zusätzlichen Cluster IP pro Interface. Stattdessen wird pro Cluster-Interface mit nur einer IP gearbeitet und dafür aber mit einer eigenen virtuellen MAC-Adresse pro Cluster-Interface. Nur der Cluster-Master…