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FortiGate hardware acceleration step-by-step troubleshooting

One of the very powerful features of FortiGate hardware appliances is the hardware acceleration chipset included in the hardware platform. This allows to forward traffic in specific situations directly from the incoming interface to the outgoing interface without passing the CPU of the system. This can safe a huge amount of system load on your FortiGate.

In most cases, hardware acceleration is working flawlessly. But in some very rare cases, hardware acceleration may cause problems. Or the hardware acceleration is not working at all and the packets have to be handled by the CPU of your FortiGate.

This guide will lead you through the important troubleshooting steps.

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Performance Best Practices for Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows

Here you can find some recommendations how to configure protection in Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows and reduce the impact on the system. The original document written by Evgeniya Kirikova from Kasperksy can be downloaded here.

General recommendations

  1. Use the latest versions of Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows, as they contain the latest fixes and improvements, including performance related.
  2. We recommend you to use all protection components with default settings. They provide the optimal balance between protection level and performance recommended by our experts.
  3. Check KES for Windows policy and make sure that general performance settings are enabled (KES policy –> General –> Application settings):
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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 (it does not happen with «self-signed» only):

config system global
  set admin-server-cert "self-signed"
end
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