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v5.6.x

VPN Ciphers, Encryption, DH Settings Recommendations

(2019-03-13) Problem What are the recommended settings for IPSEC VPNs? (Updated 25 April 2023) IK...

Traffic Shaping Policy

(2019-07-08) Problem Traffic shaping wtf? Solution In 5.6, traffic shaping was removed from IPv4 ...

System Version from CLI

(2019-01-10) What firmware am I running? # get system status Version: FortiGate-60D v5.6.2,build1...

SSLVPN DNS Suffix

(2019-03-13) Problem SSLVPN users have to use FQDNs instead of short names when connecting to off...

SSL Security Settings

(2019-03-13) Problem Standard configuration for (more) secure crypto Solution config sys global ...

SSH Pubkey Login

(2018-12-19) Problem Want SSH Pubkey authentication for my AD-backed administrative user. Specifi...

Routing Table

(2019-05-28) Problem Routing table? Solution get router info routing-table all get router info ...

Microsoft Office Whitelisting

(2020-03-13) Creating Whitelists For Microsoft Internet Services See: (https://docs.microsoft.com...

List DHCP Clients CLI

(2019-02-13) Problem Using the CLI, list current assigned DHCP leases. Solution For interface "in...

IPsec Not Passing Packets

(2019-09-12) Problem IPsec tunnel to another device (in this case, a Watchguard). Tunnel shows as...

FortiOS LLDP

(2019-01-22) Solution So apparently FortiGates can do LLDP, you just have to turn it on. config s...

BGP Sessions

(2020-06-24) Problem Soft-bounce bgp sessions. This should cause peers to hold on to the routes w...

BGP Neighbors

(2020-06-18) BGP Neighbor status? # get router info bgp neighbors … # get router info bgp neighbo...