Fortinet Firewall in transparent mode over VLAN Trunk 802.1Q
We have a fortigate firewall in transparent mode. WAN interface is on VLAN 10 and INTERNAL interface is on VLAN 20. If I connect a server behind VLAN 20 on the switch where the firewall is connected everything works fine. The problem is when I connect to another switch that is getting VLAN 20 over [...]

Answer Question   |  February 28, 2012  9:11 PM
Cisco 3550, FortiGate, transparent mode, VLAN

Blocking user internet access
Hi, we are currently using a Fortigate 60 Firewall. I need to block user internet access via the firewall. I have been told that this can be done by creating a user group. The users need to be setup with there MAC address and this is what will be used to block the access. My [...]

Answer Question   |  May 7, 2013  3:41 PM
Firewall configuration, FortiGate, fortigate 60

Routing VLANs to public IPs from Intranet through Fortigate firewall
We have three virtual local area networks (VLANs) as follows: 1 data, 2 voice and 3 wireless. We have 6506e at the core, and interVLAN routing is working fine. The problem is implementing FortiGate firewall in transparent mode and terminating the ISP on the router with Ethernet output. I am not able to route VLANs [...]

Answer Question   |  February 26, 2009  11:28 PM
Firewalls, FortiGate, Internet protocol, InterVLAN Routing, ISP, Network Address Translation, Network hardware, Network security, Network security appliances, Networking, Routers, Routing and switching, Virtual LAN

How to block Google Talk via Fortigate 60?
blocking chatenabled.mail.google.com doesn’t seem to work anymore. please help!

Answer Question   |  August 19, 2010  1:55 AM
Firewalls, FortiGate, FortiGuard, Google Talk, IM security, Unified Threat Management, UTM