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Dual-WAN Gateways
Rules For Multiple Default Gateways If the two routes have different Administrative Distance set...
DHCP Reservation
(2015-01-29) New way: config system dhcp server edit <instance_int> config reserved-address ...
Configuration Preparation
(2015-08-24) This is the recipe that I use when configuring out-of-box systems for the first time...
Memory Logging
(2015-03-12) Problem By default, baby firewalls (which seems to mean up to and including F90Ds ) ...
DHCP Client Leases
(2015-04-22) List the DHCP leases handed out on $INTERFACE. # exec dhcp lease-list $INTERFACE
Backup ISP with some traffic selection
(2013-08-26) Problem: My scenario is that I have a FortiGate 60D with two ISPs: a static DSL, and...
Test Authentication Servers
Testing authentication These cli commands can help you test your radius or ldap server: # diag te...
Syslog
(2014-08-22) To enable logging to a syslog server: config log syslogd setting set status enab...
Simple Commands
(2013-11-13) Ping # exec ping $TARGET Options execute ping-options view-settings execute ping-o...
Routing Table
(2013-08-26) Display the routing table: # get router info routing-table all
Reset Admin Password
(2014-07-03) Problem Nobody remembers the password for a given admin account. We have another sup...
Radius Server Definition
(2014-06-14) On the smaller FortiGates, the GUI doesn't include the ability to define Radius serv...
Interface Mode
(2014-06-24) To set interface mode: make sure the default Internal interface has no DHCP server ...
Interface Duplex
(2013-12-17) Problem Need to force speed/duplex on a physical interface. Solution There's no GUI ...
Reset to Factory Defaults
(2013-08-28) Reset To Factory Defaults You have two minutes from power reset to perform this task...
DHCP Reservation
(2015-01-29) Warning: this method does not work in 5.2 (and presumably higher). config system dhc...
crashlog
(2015-04-22) List the firewall's internal crashlog: # di de crashlog read
arp
(2015-04-20) Show the arp table: # get system arp
DHCP and PPPoE
Problem: Cannot set mode to DHCP or PPPoE when HA is on. It doesn't work. Note: this is ...
HA Cluster Member Firmware Revisions
(2014-11-20) Verify the firmware versions of cluster members: fw-ottawa-A # get syste...