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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)

Monitoring OSPF routes


By default, all routes are displayed in the routing monitor list. When the OSPF process is active, we can see the route received by navigating to the Router | Monitor | Routing Monitor pane, as we can see in the following screenshot:

The Type column indicates the way we learned a route to a specific network (shown in the Network column). The administrative distance will decide the preferred route if more than one route is available for a destination network, while the Metric value will be used to select the best route among the ones known through a specific routing protocol. For OSPF there is an additional parameter, Subtype. The subtype field shows a value equal to External if the route is from outside of the AS. If the route is received from a not-so-stubby area, the value would be (OSPF NSSA).