In the context of SSL VPN, we sometimes receive the question, if it’s possible to assign IP-addresses using an external DHCP server. Unfortunatly this is not possible on the FortiGate. >> Possible since FOS 7.0.6 and FOS 7.2.1.
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In the context of SSL VPN, we sometimes receive the question, if it’s possible to assign IP-addresses using an external DHCP server. Unfortunatly this is not possible on the FortiGate. >> Possible since FOS 7.0.6 and FOS 7.2.1.
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Last update: 30.10.2025 General Your VoIP provider should give you the information, if the SIP ALG on the Fortigate is needed or not. In the default setting of a Fortigate the SIP ALG is active.
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Unser letzter Beitrag zur Konfiguration einer Fortigate, um zuhause auch Swisscom TV durch die Fortigate zu bekommen, ist schon eine zeitlang her. Deswegen hier mal wieder ein aktueller Beitrag mit einer Fortigate auf FOS 7.0.0 (der auch mit 6.4.5 getestet wurde). Aber Vorsicht, mit dem Swisscom Centro Business oder Centro…
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Let’s mention the important things first: Please patch you vulnerable Exchange 2013, 2016 and 2019 immediately! The page msxfaq has published an infosite to this vulnerability including the instructions how to fix your Exchange. Even though we, as Boll Engineering AG, are not associated in any way with the affected…

Im Laufe des Lebenszyklus von Firewalls werden diese oftmals ersetzt mit einem neueren Modell, die Konfiguration möchte man aber gerne übernehmen. Für diesen Fall gibt es verschiedene Möglichkeiten, die wir in diesem Blog Beitrag vorstellen: 1. FortiConverter Service2. FortiConverter Tool3. Partielle Konfigübernahme4. Volle Konfigübernahme English article can be found here:…

The good news first: If you’re currently using the FortiClient to establish a Dialup IPsec VPN (Aggressive, PSK based), the same configuration should also work with the native macOS client.

Are you running FortiOS 6.2.x and your Web Filter Overrides suddenly stopped working? Then read ahead.

Update, Nov 2020: More than a year after Fortinet described this SSLVPN vulnerability, it gets new attention. A few days ago a list of IPs and domain names of vulnerable Fortigates was published. This list is dated November 2019 and one can only hope that many of these systems have…
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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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Based on two recent support cases regarding the IPsec performance between an OnPrem and Azure FortiGate, we did some testing using the latest FortiOS 6.4.1. We’ve created a basic IPsec tunnel using the wizard, deployed an Ubuntu machine at both sites and used iPerf3 to do some speed testing. The…
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