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Getting Started with FortiGate

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Getting Started with FortiGate

Overview of this book

FortiGate from Fortinet is a highly successful family of appliances enabled to manage routing and security on different layers, supporting dynamic protocols, IPSEC and VPN with SSL, application and user control, web contents and mail scanning, endpoint checks, and more, all in a single platform. The heart of the appliance is the FortiOS (FortiOS 5 is the latest release) which is able to unify a friendly web interface with a powerful command line to deliver high performance. FortiGate is able to give users the results they usually achieve at a fraction of the cost of what they would have to invest with other vendors.This practical, hands-on guide addresses all the tasks required to configure and manage a FortiGate unit in a logical order. The book starts with topics related to VLAN and routing (static and advanced) and then discusses in full the UTM features integrated in the appliance. The text explains SSL VPN and IPSEC VPN with all the required steps you need to deploy the aforementioned solutions. High availability and troubleshooting techniques are also explained in the last two chapters of the book.This concise, example-oriented book explores all the concepts you need to administer a FortiGate unit. You will begin by covering the basic tools required to administer a FortiGate unit, including NAT, routing, and VLANs. You will then be guided through the concepts of firewalling, UTM inside the appliance, tunnelling using SSL, and IPSEC and dial-up configurations. Next, you will get acquainted with important topics like high availability and Vdoms. Finally, you will end the book with an overview of troubleshooting tools and techniques.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Troubleshooting VPN


With the tools we have explained, we are able to troubleshoot VPN connections. We can start with SSL VPN debugging and follow the steps suggested in the Debugging FortiGate configurations document (http://docs.fortinet.com/cb/html/index.html#page/FOS_Cookbook/Install_advanced/cb_ts_debug.html). The steps are as follows:

  1. Verify the current debug configuration with the diagnose debug info command.

  2. Display debug messages for SSL VPN using the diagnose debug application sslvpn -1 command.

  3. Use diagnose debug enable to display debug messages.

Any error will be shown on screen. To debug an IPSEC site-to-site VPN connection, a good list of steps is the one posted by Yuri Slobodyanyuk in his blog: http://bit.ly/hzREm1. The steps are as follows:

  1. Open an SSH session on the FortiGate unit.

  2. Execute diagnose debug enable to enable debugging.

  3. Execute diagnose debug app ike -1 to verify IKE errors.

  4. Execute diagnose sniffer packet any <IP of the remote LAN> to activate packet sniffing.

  5. Open...