CheatSheet – FortiOS v6.4

The System Engineers of BOLL Engineering have been supporting Fortigate devices for 18 years. This year, FortiOS v6.4 was released and we have again gathered all the troubleshooting commands that we use regularly in our new CheatSheet. Hopefully this CheatSheet will help you as well. You will find the most…

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FortiAP and VLAN ID 97 or 98

Did you know, that on the FortiAP FAP-C24JE, the VLAN ID’s 898 and 899 are reserved for system use? Or that the FortiAP models FAP-S221E, FAP-S223E, FAP-221E, FAP-222E, FAP-223E and FAP-224E can not work with VLAN ID 97 and 98? I’m sure you already guessed it: These ID’s are reserved…

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Upgrade your FortiMail now!

There seems to be a vulnerarbility in some FortiMail versions, that allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to access the system by requesting a password change. Please refer to the FortiGuard PSIRT article. The problem here is not only the unauthorized access to the system, but also the change of the…

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Websites are not working anymore

Since June 1st you may notice that some websites (https) are not working anymore when Fortigate or the Palo Alto Networks Firewall is doing decryption or certificate inspection. Typically you are getting one of the following error messages:

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FortiOS 6.2: Upgrade Notes

Due to several known issues, we did not recommend the use of FortiOS 6.2 in productive environments for the first couple of months. As per FortiOS 6.2.5, we noticed that most of the issues have been resolved. Please have a look into our FortiOS upgrade guide for the upgrade procedure.

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