Last update: 11. October 2024 In our daily support work we often see FortiGates in use on which the basic settings like time zone, host name and so on have never been set correctly. Therefore we would like to provide you with a small guide on this page, with which…
… or accessed from any unauthorized party. In some cases it’s not even necessary to hack a system to gain access to it. For example it may be enough to leak a configuration file to allow unauthorized system access. Fortunately, many cases of a suspected hack turn out to be…
In this post we want to share some of the most seen reasons for slow performance on FortiGate appliances with you. This are experiences we’ve made in our support department and is not a concluding list.
According to this title you are expecting some click-bait content, right? Nope. We’re still the Boll Engineering Tech team here… The configuration inputs below are problems we face frequently in our daily support life. Also some of the points mentioned below are frequently asked questions that pop up during our…
Last update: 11. October 2024 In our daily support work we often see FortiGates in use on which the basic settings like time zone, host name and so on have never been set correctly. Therefore we would like to provide you with a small guide on this page, with which…
We have created a cheat sheet for Palo Alto firewalls with all important commands for troubleshooting.The cheat sheet was created for PANOS version 10.1. We have divided the cheat sheet into different sections like general commands, session debugging, service debugging and feature related debugging commands so that the needed commands…
We have created a combined CheatSheet for the FortiAnalyzer and FortiManager OS version 7.0. We have divided sections into FortiAnalyzer Logging, FortiAnalyzer Reporting and FortiManager to find the needed commands faster. CheatSheet FAZ FMGR 7.0 v1.2 We hope that this will contribute to quick solutions of existing problems.
Some providers (like init7.ch which already uses the Swisscom XGS-PON) do encapsulate their PPPoE traffic into a VLAN Tag (802.1Q or Q-Tagged). The reason for this is, that in the majority of the cases the provider is using a layer 2 network (last mile) of another provider, which uses VLAN…
During the lifecycle of firewalls, they are often replaced with a newer model, but you would like to keep the configuration. In this case, there are several possibilities, which we present in this blog post: 1. FortiConverter Service2. FortiConverter Tool3. Partial Config Transfer4. Full Config Transfer Den deutschen Artikel dazu…
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…
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