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Wifi Clients Connect But Can't Get DHCP Lease

FortiOS v5.4.x

(2019-04-17) Problem Wifi clients connect but can't get DHCP lease from either the Fortigate or f...

Updated 11 months ago by david

VPN Flapping Leads To Bogus Routing

FortiOS v5.4.x

(2018-01-30) Problem Two computers, A and B, trying to connect across a site-to-site VPN to compu...

Updated 11 months ago by david

System Time

FortiOS v5.4.x

(2018-12-03) Problem Show system time on a FortiGate. Solution # exec time current time is: 19:0...

Updated 11 months ago by david

SSLVPN Logs Out After 8 Hours

FortiOS v5.4.x

(2018-01-26) Problem SSLVPN disconnects after 8 hours. Solution config vpn ssl settings set auth-...

Updated 11 months ago by david

RTC Power Status Failed

FortiOS v5.4.x

(2018-12-03) Problem Firewall doesn't boot. When you hook a console up to it, it says: Error: RTC...

Updated 11 months ago by david

List SSLVPN Users

FortiOS v5.4.x

(2018-06-11) Problem List connected SSLVPN users. Solution exec vpn sslvpn list

Updated 11 months ago by david

List DHCP Client Leases

FortiOS v5.4.x

(2018-08-15) Problem Find the current list of DHCP clients for a Fortigate DHCP server. Solution ...

Updated 11 months ago by david

Forticlient Registering To Fortigate

FortiOS v5.4.x

(2018-02-02) Problem My FortiClient users are getting prompted to "register" their FortiClients a...

Updated 11 months ago by david

Factory Reset

FortiOS v5.4.x

(2018-03-01) Problem The reset to factory settings using the GUI is not available in v5.4. Soluti...

Updated 11 months ago by david

Debug Sniffer

FortiOS v5.4.x

(2017-11-23) Problem Want to sniff traffic flow. Solution # diag sniffer packet <interface> <'fil...

Updated 11 months ago by david

Debug Session

FortiOS v5.4.x

(2018-01-30) Session operations di sys session list Set a filter: di sys session filter di sys s...

Updated 11 months ago by david

Debug Flow

FortiOS v5.4.x

(2018-01-30) Debugging Flow Example: diag debug enable diag debug flow filter addr 203.160.224.97...

Updated 11 months ago by david

CPU is pinned

FortiOS v5.4.x

(2018-06-11) Problem CPU on Fortigate is maxed out for a long period of time (hours, days). Solut...

Updated 11 months ago by david

Connecting Multiple vDOMs to the same VLAN

FortiOS v5.4.x

(2018-02-26) Problem I have more vDOMs to connect to a VLAN than I have physical interfaces. (The...

Updated 11 months ago by david

CLI Upgrade Firmware

FortiOS v5.4.x

Problem Upgrading firmwares via the web UI is tedious, especially when you have 50 or 60+ of thes...

Updated 11 months ago by david

CLI Disk Scan FSCK

FortiOS v5.4.x

(2018-08-22) Problem It is a good idea to run a disk check before doing a firmware upgrade, espec...

Updated 11 months ago by david

VPN Tunnel Details

FortiOS v5.2.x

(2015-10-19) Problem I want details about a VPN tunnel. Solution # diag vpn tunnel list list all ...

Updated 11 months ago by david

VPN Fragmentation

FortiOS v5.2.x

(2017-04-12) Problem VPN throughput is slow and you suspect fragmentation. Solution You can influ...

Updated 11 months ago by david

VoIP Clients with Fortigates

FortiOS v5.2.x

(2017-01-11) Problem VoIP Clients with FortiGates Solution Disable the SIP ALG config system sett...

Updated 11 months ago by david

Management Access

FortiOS v5.2.x

(2015-08-13) Problem Need to enable remote management through the CLI. Solution config system int...

Updated 11 months ago by david