FortiOS Handbook

Firewall for FortiOS 5.2

FortiOS Handbook - Firewall for FortiOS 5.2
July 07, 2014
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Table of Contents
Change Log....................................................................................................... 8
Introduction....................................................................................................... 9
How this Guide is Organized ................................................................................... 9
FortiGate Firewall Components............................................................................. 10
How does a FortiGate Protect Your Network........................................................ 11
Firewall concepts ........................................................................................... 13
What is a Firewall?................................................................................................. 13
Network Layer or Packet Filter Firewalls ......................................................... 13
Application Layer Firewalls .............................................................................. 14
Proxy Servers................................................................................................... 14
Security Profiles ............................................................................................... 15
IPv6........................................................................................................................ 16
IPv6 in FortiOS................................................................................................. 18
Dual Stack routing configuration ..................................................................... 18
IPv6 Tunnelling................................................................................................. 19
Tunnelling IPv6 through IPSec VPN................................................................. 20
NAT........................................................................................................................ 20
The Origins of NAT........................................................................................... 20
Static NAT........................................................................................................ 21
Dynamic NAT................................................................................................... 21
Benefits of NAT................................................................................................ 23
NAT in Transparent Mode................................................................................ 24
Central NAT Table............................................................................................ 24
NAT 64 and NAT46 .......................................................................................... 25
NAT 66 ............................................................................................................. 25
How Packets are handled by FortiOS ................................................................... 26
FortiGate Modes.................................................................................................... 27
NAT/Route Mode ............................................................................................. 28
Transparent Mode............................................................................................ 28
Quality of Service................................................................................................... 28
Traffic policing.................................................................................................. 28
Traffic Shaping................................................................................................. 29
Queuing............................................................................................................ 29
Interfaces and Zones ............................................................................................. 29
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Firewall objects .............................................................................................. 31
Addresses.............................................................................................................. 31
Interfaces ......................................................................................................... 32
IPv4 Addresses ................................................................................................ 33
Subnet Addresses............................................................................................ 33
IP Range Addresses ........................................................................................ 34
FQDN Addresses ............................................................................................. 35
Geography Based Addresses.......................................................................... 37
URL Pattern address........................................................................................ 38
Address Groups..................................................................................................... 39
UUID Support................................................................................................... 40
Virtual IPs............................................................................................................... 40
Dynamic VIP according to DNS translation................................................. 41
Creating a Virtual IP....................................................................................... 41
Virtual IP Groups.................................................................................................... 43
Creating a Virtual IP Group.............................................................................. 43
IP Pools.................................................................................................................. 44
Creating a Dynamic IP Pool ............................................................................. 46
Fixed Port......................................................................................................... 46
Match-VIP........................................................................................................ 46
Services and TCP ports......................................................................................... 47
Categories........................................................................................................ 48
Protocol Types................................................................................................. 48
Service Groups ................................................................................................ 64
Example Scenario: Using FortiGate services to support Audio/Visual Conferencing
65
VIP.................................................................................................................... 65
Creating an address for the subnet ................................................................. 66
Configuring the services .................................................................................. 66
Creating the Service Group ............................................................................. 69
Creating the IPS Security Profile...................................................................... 69
Policies............................................................................................................. 70
Firewall schedules ................................................................................................. 72
Schedule Groups ............................................................................................. 72
Schedule Expiration......................................................................................... 73
Security policies ............................................................................................. 74
Firewall policies...................................................................................................... 74
Firewall policy parameters ............................................................................... 75
What is not expressly allowed is denied.......................................................... 77
Policy order ...................................................................................................... 77
Policy Identification.......................................................................................... 79
UUID Support................................................................................................... 80
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Security profiles ..................................................................................................... 80
AntiVirus........................................................................................................... 80
Web Filtering.................................................................................................... 81
Application Control .......................................................................................... 81
Intrusion Protection (IPS) ................................................................................. 81
Email Filtering................................................................................................... 81
Data Leak Prevention (DLP) ............................................................................. 82
VoIP.................................................................................................................. 82
ICAP................................................................................................................. 82
EndPoint Control.............................................................................................. 82
Proxy Option Components .............................................................................. 82
The use of different proxy profiles and profile options .................................... 83
SSL/SSH Inspection .............................................................................................. 85
Inspection Exemption ...................................................................................... 86
Creating or editing an SSL/SSH Inspection profile.......................................... 87
Viewing Firewall Policies.................................................................................. 89
How Any policy can remove the Section View............................................. 90
Security policy configuration extensions ......................................................... 90
Identity Based Policies .......................................................................................... 91
Identity-based policy positioning..................................................................... 91
VPN Policies .......................................................................................................... 93
IPSec Policies .................................................................................................. 93
Interface Policies.................................................................................................... 93
DoS Protection................................................................................................. 94
One-Arm IDS.................................................................................................... 98
IPv6 IPS............................................................................................................ 98
Traffic Destined to the FortiGate unit............................................................... 98
Dropped, Flooded, Broadcast, Multicast and L2 packets............................... 98
GUI and CLI ..................................................................................................... 99
Local-In Policies..................................................................................................... 99
Security Policy 0 .................................................................................................. 100
Deny Policies ....................................................................................................... 101
Accept Policies .................................................................................................... 101
IPv6 Policies......................................................................................................... 101
Fixed Port............................................................................................................. 101
Endpoint Security ................................................................................................ 102
Traffic Logging..................................................................................................... 102
Quality of Service................................................................................................. 104
Queuing.......................................................................................................... 104
Policy Monitor ...................................................................................................... 104
Upper Pane.................................................................................................... 105
Lower Pane.................................................................................................... 105
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Network defense .......................................................................................... 106
Monitoring............................................................................................................ 106
Blocking external probes..................................................................................... 106
Address sweeps............................................................................................. 106
Port scans...................................................................................................... 107
Probes using IP traffic options....................................................................... 107
Evasion techniques........................................................................................ 108
Defending against DoS attacks ........................................................................... 111
The three-way handshake .......................................................................... 111
SYN flood....................................................................................................... 111
SYN spoofing................................................................................................. 112
DDoS SYN flood ............................................................................................ 112
Configuring the SYN threshold to prevent SYN floods.................................. 113
SYN proxy...................................................................................................... 113
Other flood types ........................................................................................... 113
DoS policies................................................................................................... 114
GUI & CLI - What You May Not Know......................................................... 115
Mouse Tricks ....................................................................................................... 115
Changing the default column setting on the policy page .................................... 116
Example: ........................................................................................................ 117
Naming Rules and Restrictions ........................................................................... 117
Character Restrictions ......................................................................................... 117
Length of Fields Restrictions ............................................................................... 118
Numeric Values.................................................................................................... 118
Selecting options from a list ................................................................................ 119
Enabling or disabling options .............................................................................. 119
To Enable or Disable Optionally Displayed Features........................................... 119
Building firewall objects and policies......................................................... 121
IPv4 Firewall Addresses....................................................................................... 122
Scenario: Mail Server ..................................................................................... 122
Scenario: First Floor Network ........................................................................ 122
Scenario: Marketing Department ................................................................... 123
Verification ..................................................................................................... 124
IPv6 Firewall Addresses....................................................................................... 124
Scenario: Mail Server ..................................................................................... 124
Scenario: First Floor Network ........................................................................ 125
Verification ..................................................................................................... 125
FQDN address ..................................................................................................... 126
Verification ..................................................................................................... 126
Changing the TTL of a FQDN address ................................................................ 127
New Geography-based Address ......................................................................... 127
IPv4 Address Group............................................................................................. 128
IPv6 Address Group............................................................................................. 129
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Multicast Address ................................................................................................ 129
Service Category ................................................................................................. 130
TCP/UDP/SCTP Service...................................................................................... 131
ICMP Service ....................................................................................................... 133
ICMPv6 Service ................................................................................................... 134
Service Group...................................................................................................... 135
Virtual IP address................................................................................................. 136
VIP Group....................................................................................................... 138
IP Pool.................................................................................................................. 138
Central NAT Table................................................................................................ 140
Firewall Schedule - Recurring.............................................................................. 141
Firewall Schedule - One-time .............................................................................. 142
Schedule Group................................................................................................... 143
Proxy Option........................................................................................................ 144
Oversized Files............................................................................................... 146
DoS Policy ........................................................................................................... 147
Multicast forwarding.................................................................................... 152
Sparse mode........................................................................................................ 152
Dense mode......................................................................................................... 153
Multicast IP addresses ........................................................................................ 154
PIM Support......................................................................................................... 155
Multicast forwarding and FortiGate units ............................................................ 155
Multicast forwarding and RIPv2..................................................................... 156
Configuring FortiGate multicast forwarding......................................................... 157
Adding multicast security policies ................................................................. 158
Enabling multicast forwarding ....................................................................... 158
Multicast routing examples.................................................................................. 160
Example FortiGate PIM-SM configuration using a static RP......................... 160
FortiGate PIM-SM debugging examples ....................................................... 171
Example multicast destination NAT (DNAT) configuration ............................ 177
Example PIM configuration that uses BSR to find the RP............................. 179
Index .............................................................................................................. 191
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Change Log
Date Change Description
2014-07-07 Initial Release.
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Introduction
Welcome and thank you for selecting Fortinet products for your network protection. This
document is intended to provide the concepts and techniques that will be needed to configure
the FortiGate firewall on your FortiGate unit.
Before you start administrating your FortiGate device, certain assumptions have been made in
the writing of this manual:
You have administrative access to the Web based GUI or to the Command Line Interface.
The FortiGate unit is integrated into your network.
The operation mode (NAT or Transparent) has been configured.
Network Interfaces have been configured.
DNS settings have been configured.
The system time settings have been configured.
Firmware is up to date.
FortiGuard Service licences are current and the device is able to connect to the FortiGuard
Servers.
If you are using FortiCloud, it is properly configured.
How this Guide is Organized
Firewall concepts explains the ideas behind the components, techniques and processes that
are involved in setting up and running a firewall in general and the FortiGate firewall in particular.
The premise here is that regardless of how experienced someone is with firewalls as they go
through the process of configuring a firewall that is new to them they are likely to come across a
term or setting that they may not be familiar with even if it is only in the context of the setting
they are working in at the moment. FortiGate firewall are quite comprehensive and can be very
granular in the functions that they perform, so it makes sense to have a consistent frame of
reference for the ideas that we will be working with.
Some examples of the concepts that will be addressed here are:
What is a Firewall?
NAT
IPv6
Firewall objects describes the following firewall objects:
Addressing
Services
Firewall Policies
Network defense describes various methods of defending your Network using the abilities of
the FortiGate Firewall.
GUI & CLI - What You May Not Know helps you navigate and find the components in the
Web-based Manager that you will need to build the functions. This section is does not include
any in-depth explanations of what each object does as that is covered in the concepts section.
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This section is for showing you where you need to input your information and let you know what
format the interface expects to get that information
Building firewall objects and policies is similar to a cookbook in that it will refer to a number of
common tasks that you will likely perform to get the full functionality out of your FortiGate
firewall. Because of the way that firewall are designed, performing many of the tasks requires
that firewall components be set up in a number of different sections of the interface and be
configured to work together to achieve the desired result. This section will bring those
components all together as a straight forward series of instructions.
Multicast forwarding is a reference guide including the concepts and examples that are involved
in the use of multicast addressing and policy forwarding as it is used in the FortiGate firewall.
FortiGate Firewall Components
The FortiGate firewall is made up of a number of different components that are used to build an
impressive list of features that have flexibility of scope and granularity of control that provide
protection that is beyond that provided by the basic firewalls of the past.
Some of the components that FortiOS uses to build features are:
Interfaces
VLANs
Soft Switches
Zones
Predefined Addresses
IP address based
FQDN based
Geography based
Access Schedules
Authentication
Local User based
Authentication Server based (Active Directory, Radius, LDAP)
Device Based
Configureable Services
IPv4 and IPv6 protocol support
The features of FortiOS include but are not limited to:
Security profiles, sometimes referred to as Unified Threat Management (UTM) or Next
Generation Firewall (NGFW)
Predefined firewall addresses (this includes IPv4 and IPv6, IP pools,. wildcard addresses and
netmasks, and geography-based addresses)
Monitoring traffic
Traffic shaping and per-IP traffic shaping (advanced)
Firewall schedules
Services (such as AOL, DHCP and FTP)
Logging traffic
Quality of Service (QoS)
Identity-based policies
Endpoint security
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The Firewall concepts expands on what each of the features does and how they relate to the
administration of the FortiGate firewall. The section will also try to explain some of the common
firewall concepts that will be touched on in the implementing of these features.
Building firewall objects and policies shows how to perform specific tasks with the FortiGate
firewall.
How does a FortiGate Protect Your Network
The FortiGate firewall protects your network by taking the various components and using them
together to build a kind of wall or access control point so that anyone that is not supposed to be
on your network is prevented from accessing your network in anyway other than those
approved by you. It also protects your network from itself by keeping things that shouldnt
happen from happening and optimizing the flow of traffic so that the network is protected from
traffic congestion that would otherwise impede traffic flow.
Most people have at one time or another played with the childrens toy system that is made up
of interlocking blocks. The blocks come in different shapes and sizes so that you can build
structures to suit your needs and in your way. The components of the FortiGate firewall are
similar. You are not forced to use all of the blocks all of the time. You mix and match them to get
the results that you are looking for. You can build a very basic structure thats only function is to
direct traffic in and out to the correct subnets or you can build a fortress that only allows
specific traffic to specific hosts from specific hosts at specific times of day and that is only if
they provide the credentials that have been pre-approved and all of the traffic is encrypted so
that even when the traffic is out on the Internet it is private from the world. Just like the
interlocking blocks, what you build is up to you, but chances are if you put them together the
right way there isnt much that cant be built.
Here is one example of how the components could be put together to support the requirements
of a network infrastructure design.
Off the Internal interface you could have separate VLANs. One for each for the departments
of Sales, Marketing and Engineering so that the traffic from the users on one VLAN does not
intrude upon the hosts of the other VLANs and the department are isolated from one another
for security reasons.
To ease in the administration each of the VLAN sub-interfaces is made a member of a zone
so that security policies that apply to all of the hosts on all of the VLANs can be applied to all
of them at once.
Using the addresses component each of the IP address ranges could be assigned a user
friendly name so that they could be referred to individually and then for policies that would
refer to them all as a whole the individual ranges to be made members of an address group.
Firewall schedules could be created to address the differing needs of each of the groups so
that Sales and Marketing could be allowed access to the Internet during regular business
hours and the Engineering department could be allowed access during the lunch break.
By setting up the outgoing policies to use FortiGuard Web-filtering the employees could be
prevented from visiting inappropriate sites and thus enforcing the policies of the HR
department.
A couple of virtual IP addresses with port forwarding could be configured to allow users on
the Internet to access a web server on the DMZ subnet using the companys only Public IP
address without affecting the traffic that goes to the companys mail server that is hosted on
a complete different computer.
Even though the Web server on the same DMZ has an FTP service to allow for the uploading
of web pages to the web server from the Marketing and Engineer teams, by placing a DENY
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policy on any FTP traffic from the Internet malicious users are prevented from abusing the
FTP service.
By monitoring the traffic as it goes through the policies you can verify that the policies are in
working order.
By using a combination of ALLOW and DENY policies and placing them in the correct order
you could arrange for an outside contractor to be allowed to update the web site as well
These set of configurations is not extensive but it does give an idea of how different
components can be mixed and matched to build a configuration that meets an organizations
needs but at the same time protect it from security risks.
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Firewall concepts
There are a number of concepts that are consistent throughout the firewall industry and having
a solid grasp of these ideas and terms can give you a better idea of what your FortiGate firewall
is capable of and how it will be able to fit within your networks architecture.
This chapter describes the following firewall concepts:
What is a Firewall?
IPv6
NAT
How Packets are handled by FortiOS
FortiGate Modes
Quality of Service
Interfaces and Zones
What is a Firewall?
The term firewall originally referred to a wall intended to confine a fire or potential fire within a
building. Later uses refer to similar structures, such as the metal sheet separating the engine
compartment of a vehicle or aircraft from the passenger compartment.
A firewall can either be software-based or hardware-based and is used to help keep a network
secure. Its primary objective is to control the incoming and outgoing network traffic by analyzing
the data packets and determining whether it should be allowed through or not, based on a
predetermined rule set. A network's firewall builds a bridge between an internal network that is
assumed to be secure and trusted, and another network, usually an external (inter)network,
such as the Internet, that is not assumed to be secure and trusted.
Network Layer or Packet Filter Firewalls
Stateless Firewalls
Stateless firewalls are the oldest form of these firewalls. They are faster and simple in design
requiring less memory because they process each packet individually and don't require the
resources necessary to hold onto packets like stateful firewalls. Stateful firewalls inspect each
packet individually and check to see if it matches a predetermined set of rules. According to the
matching rule the packet is either be allowed, dropped or rejected. In the case of a rejection an
error message is sent to the source of the traffic. Each packet is inspected in isolation and
information is only gathered from the packet itself. Simply put, if the packets were not
specifically allowed according to the list of rules held by the firewall they were not getting
through.
Stateful Firewalls
Stateful firewalls retain packets in memory so that they can maintain context about active
sessions and make judgements about the state of an incoming packet's connection. This
enables Stateful firewalls to determine if a packet is the start of a new connection, a part of an
existing connection, or not part of any connection. If a packet is part of an existing connection
based on comparison with the firewall's state table, it will be allowed to pass without further
processing. If a packet does not match an existing connection, it will be evaluated according to
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the rules set for new connections. Predetermined rules are used in the same way as a stateless
firewall but they can now work with the additional criteria of the state of the connection to the
firewall.
Best Practices Tip for improving performance:
Blocking the packets in a denied session can take more cpu processing resources than passing
the traffic through. By putting denied sessions in the session table, they can be kept track of in
the same way that allowed session are so that the FortiGate unit does not have to redetermine
whether or not to deny all of the packets of a session individually. If the session is denied all
packets of that session are also denied.
In order to configure this you will need to use 2 CLI commands
Application Layer Firewalls
Application layer filtering is yet another approach and as the name implies it works primarily on
the Application Layer of the OSI Model.
Application Layer Firewalls actually, for lack of a better term, understand certain applications
and protocols. Examples would be FTP, DNS and HTTP. This form of filtration is able to check to
see if the packets are actually behaving incorrectly or if the packets have been incorrectly
formatted for the protocol that is indicated. This process also allows for the use of deep packet
inspection and the sharing of functionality with Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS).
Application-layer firewalls work on the application level of the TCP/IP stack (i.e., all browser
traffic, or all telnet or ftp traffic), and may intercept all packets traveling to or from an
application. They block other packets (usually dropping them without acknowledgment to the
sender). Application firewalls work much like a packet filter but application filters apply filtering
rules (allow/block) on a per process basis instead of filtering connections on a per port basis.
On inspecting all packets for improper content, firewalls can restrict or prevent outright the
spread of networked computer worms and trojans. The additional inspection criteria can add
extra latency to the forwarding of packets to their destination.
Proxy Servers
A proxy server is an appliance or application that acts as an intermediary for communicating
between computers. A computer has a request for information. The packets are sent to the
designated resource but before they can get there they are blocked by the proxy server saying
that it will take the request and pass it on. The Proxy Server processes the request and if it is
valid it passes onto the designated computer. The designated computer gets the packet and
processes the request, sending the answer back to the proxy server. The proxy server sends the
information back to the originating computer. Its all a little like a situation with two people who
refuse to talk directly with each other using someone else to take messages back and forth.
config system setting
set ses-denied-traffic enable
set block-session-timer <integer 1 - 300> (this determines in seconds
how long, in seconds, the session is kept in the table)
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From a security stand point a Proxy Server can serve a few purposes:
Protects the anonymity of the originating computer
The two computers never deal directly with each other
Packets that are not configured to be forwarded are dropped before reaching the destination
computer.
If malicious code is sent it will affect the Proxy server with out affecting the originating or
sending computer.
Proxies can perform a number of roles including:
Content Filtering
Caching
DNS proxy
Bypassing Filters and Censorship
Logging and eavesdropping
Gateways to private networks
Accessing service anonymously
Security Profiles
Unified Threat Management and Next Generation Firewall are terms originally coined by market
research firms and refer to the concept of a comprehensive security solution provided in a
single package. It is basically combining of what used to be accomplished by a number of
different security technologies all under a single umbrella or in this case, a single device. On the
FortiGate firewall this is achieved by the use of Security Profiles and optimized hardware.
In effect it is going from a previous style of firewall that included among its features:
Gateway Network Firewall
Routing
VPN
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To a more complete system that includes:
Gateway Network Firewall
Routing
VPN
Traffic Optimization
Proxy Services
Content Filtering
Application Control
Intrusion Protection
Denial of Service Attack Protection
Anti-virus
Anti-spam
Data Leak Prevention
Endpoint Control of Security Applications
Load Balancing
WiFi Access Management
Authentication Integration into Gateway Security
Logging
Reporting
Advantages of using Security Profiles
Avoidance of multiple installations.
Hardware requirements are fewer.
Fewer hardware maintenance requirements.
Less space required.
Compatibility - multiple installations of products increase the probability of incompatibility
between systems.
Easier support and management.
There is only one product to learn therefore a reduced requirement of technical knowledge.
Only a single vendor so there are fewer support contracts and Service Level Agreements.
Easier to incorporated into existing security architecture.
Plug and play architecture.
Web based GUI for administration.
IPv6
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) will succeed IPv4 as the standard networking protocol of the
Internet. IPv6 provides a number of advances over IPv4 but the primary reason for its replacing
IPv4 is its limitation in addresses. IPv4 uses 32 bit addresses which means there is a theoretical
limit of 2 to the power of 32. The IPv6 address scheme is based on a 128 bit address or a
theoretical limit of 2 to the power of 128.
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Possible Addresses:
IPv4 = 4,294,967,296 (over 4 billion)
IPv6 = 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 (over 340 undecillion - We
had to look that term up. We didnt know what a number followed by 36 digits was either)
Assuming a world population of approximately 8 billion people, IPv6 would allow for each
individual to have approximately 42,535,295,865,117,200,000,000,000,000 devices with an IP
address. Thats 42 quintillion devices.
There is little likelihood that you will ever need to worry about these numbers as any kind of
serious limitation in addressing but they do give an idea of the scope of the difference in the
available addressing.
Aside from the difference of possible addresses there is also the different formatting of the
addresses that will need to be addressed.
A computer would view an IPv4 address as a 32 bit string of binary digits made up of 1s and 0s,
broken up into 4 octets of 8 digits separated by a period .
Example:
10101100.00010000.11111110.00000001
To make number more user friendly for humans we translate this into decimal, again 4 octets
separated by a period .which works out to:
172.16.254.1
A computer would view an IPv6 address as a 128 bit string of binary digits made up of 1s and
0s, broken up into 8 octets of 16 digits separated by a colon :
1000000000000001:0000110110111000:101011000001000:1111111000000001:00000000
00000000:0000000000000000:0000000000000000:0000000000000000
To make number a little more user friendly for humans we translate this into hexadecimal, again
8 octets separated by a colon : which works out to:
8001:0DB8:AC10:FE01:0000:0000:0000:0000:
Because any four-digit group of zeros within an IPv6 address may be reduced to a single zero or
altogether omitted, this address can be shortened further to:
8001:0DB8:AC10:FE01:0:0:0:0
or
8001:0DB8:AC10:FE01::
Some of the other benefits of IPv6 include:
More efficient routing
Reduced management requirement
Stateless auto-reconfiguration of hosts
Improved methods to change Internet Service Providers
Better mobility support
Multi-homing
Security
Scoped address: link-local, site-local and global address space
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IPv6 in FortiOS
From an administrative point of view IPv6 works almost the same as IPv4 in FortiOS. The
primary difference is the use IPv6 format for addresses. There is also no need for NAT if the
FortiGate firewall is the interface between IPv6 networks. If the subnets attached to the
FortiGate firewall are IPv6 and IPv4 NAT can be configured between the 2 different formats. This
will involve either configuring a dual stack routing or IPv4 tunnelling configuration. The reason
for this is simple. NAT was developed primarily for the purpose of extending the number of
usable IPv4 addresses. IPv6s addressing allows for enough available addresses so the NAT is
no longer necessary.
When configuring IPv6 in FortiOS, you can create a dual stack route or IPv4-IPv6 tunnel. A dual
stack routing configuration implements dual IP layers, supporting both IPv4 and IPv6, in both
hosts and routers. An IPv4-IPv6 tunnel is essentially similar, creating a tunnel that encapsulates
IPv6 packets within IPv4 headers that carry these IPv6 packets over IPv4 tunnels. The FortiGate
unit can also be easily integrated into an IPv6 network. Connecting the FortiGate unit to an IPv6
network is exactly the same as connecting it to an IPv4 network, the only difference is that you
are using IPv6 addresses.
By default the IPv6 settings are not displayed in the Web-based Manager. It is just a matter of
enabling the display of these feature to use them through the web interface. To enable them just
go to System > Admin > Settings and select IPv6 Support on GUI. Once enabled, you will be
able to use IPv6 addresses as well as the IPv4 addressing for the following FortiGate firewall
features:
Static routing
Policy Routing
Packet and network sniffing
Dynamic routing (RIPv6, BGP4+, and OSPFv3)
IPSec VPN
DNS
DHCP
SSL VPN
Network interface addressing
Security Profiles protection
Routing access lists and prefix lists
NAT/Route and Transparent mode
NAT 64 and NAT 66
IPv6 tunnel over IPv4 and IPv4 tunnel over IPv6
Logging and reporting
Security policies
SNMP
Authentication
Virtual IPs and groups
IPv6 over SCTP
IPv6-specific troubleshooting, such as ping6
Dual Stack routing configuration
Dual stack routing implements dual IP layers in hosts and routers, supporting both IPv6 and
IPv4. A dual stack architecture supports both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic and routes the appropriate
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traffic as required to any device on the network. Administrators can update network
components and applications to IPv6 on their own schedule, and even maintain some IPv4
support indefinitely if that is necessary. Devices that are on this type of network, and connect to
the Internet, can query Internet DNS servers for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. If the Internet
site supports IPv6, the device can easily connect using the IPv6 address. If the Internet site
does not support IPv6, then the device can connect using the IPv4 addresses. In the FortiOS
dual stack architecture it is not just the basic addressing functions that operate in both versions
of IP. The other features of the appliance such as Security Profiles and routing can also use both
IP stacks.
If an organization with a mixed network uses an Internet service provider that does not support
IPv6, they can use an IPv6 tunnel broker to connect to IPv6 addresses that are on the Internet.
FortiOS supports IPv6 tunnelling over IPv4 networks to tunnel brokers. The tunnel broker
extracts the IPv6 packets from the tunnel and routes them to their destinations.
IPv6 Tunnelling
IPv6 Tunnelling is the act of tunnelling IPv6 packets from an IPv6 network through an IPv4
network to another IPv6 network. This is different than Network Address Translation (NAT)
because once the packet reaches its final destination the true originating address of the sender
will still be readable. The IPv6 packets are encapsulated within packets with IPv4 headers,
which carry their IPv6 payload through the IPv4 network. This type of configuration is more
appropriate for those who have completely transitional over to IPv6, but need an Internet
connection, which is still mostly IPv4 addresses.
The key to IPv6 tunnelling is the ability of the 2 devices, whether they are a host or a network
device, to be dual stack compatible. The have to be able to work with both IPv4 and IPv6 at the
same time. In the process the entry node of the tunnel portion of the path will create an
encapsulating IPv4 header and transmit the encapsulated packet. The exit node at the end of
the tunnel receives the encapsulated packet. The IPv4 header is removed. The IPv6 header is
updated and the IPv6 packet is processed.
There are two types of tunnels in IPv6:
Automatic tunnels Automatic tunnels are configured by using IPv4 address information
embedded in an IPv6 address the IPv6 address of the destination host
includes information about which IPv4 address the packet should be
tunnelled to.
Configured tunnels Configured tunnels must be configured manually. These tunnels are
used when using IPv6 addresses that do not have any embedded IPv4
information. The IPv6 and IPv4 addresses of the endpoints of the tunnel
must be specified.
Tunnel Configurations
There are a few ways in which the tunnelling can be performed depending on which segment of
the path between the end points of the session the encapsulation takes place.
Network Device to
Network Device
Dual Stack capable devices connected by an IPv4 infrastructure can
tunnel IPv6 packets between themselves. In this case, the tunnel spans
one segment of the path taken by the IPv6 packets.
Host to Network
Device
Dual Stack capable hosts can tunnel IPv6 packets to an intermediary
IPv6 or IPv4 network device that is reachable through an IPv4
infrastructure. This type of tunnel spans the first segment of the path
taken by the IPv6 packets.
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Regardless of whether the tunnel starts at a host or a network device, the node that does the
encapsulation needs to maintain soft state information, such as the maximum transmission unit
(MTU), about each tunnel in order to process the IPv6 packets.
Tunnelling IPv6 through IPSec VPN
A variation on the tunnelling IPv6 through IPv4 is using an IPSec VPN tunnel between to
FortiGate devices. FortiOS supports IPv6 over IPSec. In this sort of scenario, 2 networks using
IPv6 behind FortiGate units are separated by the Internet, which uses IPv4. An IPSec VPN
tunnel is created between the 2 FortiGate units and a tunnel is created over the IPv4 based
Internet but the traffic in the tunnel is IPv6. This has the additional advantage of make the traffic
secure as well.
NAT
NAT or Network Address Translation is the process that enables a single device such as a router
or firewall to act as an agent between the Internet or Public Network and a local or private
network. This agent, in real time, translates the source IP address of a device on one network
interface, usually the Internal, to a different IP address as it leaves another interface, usually the
interface connected to the ISP and the Internet. This enables a single public address to
represent a significantly larger number of private addresses.
The Origins of NAT
In order to understand NAT it helps to know why it was created. At one time, every computer
that was part of a network had to have its own addresses so that the other computers could
talk to it. There were a few protocols in use at the time, some of which were only for use on a
single network, but of those that were routable, the one that had become the standard for the
Internet was IP (Internet Protocol) version 4.
When IP version 4 addressing was created nobody had any idea how many addresses would be
needed. The total address range was based on the concept of 2 to the 32nd power, which
works out to be 4 294 967 296 potential addresses. Once you eliminate some of those for
reserved addresses, broadcast addresses, network addresses, multicasting, etc., you end up
with a workable scope of about 3.2 million addressees. This was thought to be more than
enough at the time. The designers were not expecting the explosion of personal computing, the
World Wide Web or smart phones. As of the beginning of 2012, some estimate the number of
computers in the world in the neighborhood of 1 billion, and most of those computer users are
going to want to be on the Internet or Search the World Wide Web. In short, we ran out of
addresses.
This problem of an address shortage was realized before we actually ran out, and in the mid
1990s 2 technical papers called RFCs numbered 1631 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1631.txt) and
1918 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1918), proposed components of a method that would be used
as a solution until a new addressing methodology could be implemented across the Internet
infrastructure. For more information on this you can look up IP version 6.
Host to Host Dual Stack capable hosts that are interconnected by an IPv4
infrastructure can tunnel IPv6 packets between themselves. In this case,
the tunnel spans the entire path taken by the IPv6 packets.
Network Device to
Host
Dual Stack capable network devices can tunnel IPv6 packets to their
final destination IPv6 or IPv4 host. This tunnel spans only the last
segment of the path taken by the IPv6 packets.
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RFC 1631 described a process that would allow networking devices to translate a single public
address to multiple private IP addresses and RFC 1918 laid out the use of the private
addresses. The addresses that were on the Internet (Public IP addresses) could not be
duplicated for them to work as unique addresses, but behind a firewall, which most large
institutions had, they could use their own Private IP addresses for internal use and the internal
computers could share the external or Public IP address.
To give an idea on a small scale how this works, image that a company has a need for 200
computer addresses. Before Private IP addresses and NAT the company would have purchased
a full Class C address range which would have been 254 usable IP addresses; wasting about 50
addresses. Now with NAT, that company only needs 1 IP address for its 200 computers and this
leaves the rest of the IP addresses in that range available for other companies to do the same
thing.
NAT gives better value than it would first appear because it is not 253 companies that can use
254 addresses but each of those 254 companies could set up their networking infrastructures
to use up to thousands of Private IP addresses, more if they dont all have to talk to the Internet
at the same time. This process enabled the Internet to keep growing even though we technically
have many more computers networked than we have addresses.
Static NAT
In Static NAT one internal IP address is always mapped to the same public IP address.
In FortiGate firewall configurations this is most commonly done with the use of Virtual IP
addressing.
An example would be if you had a small range of IP addresses assigned to you by your ISP and
you wished to use one of those IP address exclusively for a particular server such as an email
server.
Say the internal address of the Email server was 192.168.12.25 and the Public IP address from
your assigned addresses range from 256.16.32.65 to 256.16.32.127. Many readers will notice
that because one of the numbers is above 255 that this is not a real Public IP address. The
Address that you have assigned to the interface connected to your ISP is 256.16.32.66, with
256.16.32.65 being the remote gateway. You wish to use the address of 256.16.32.70
exclusively for your email server.
When using a Virtual IP address you set the external IP address of 256.16.32.70 to map to
192.168.12.25. This means that any traffic being sent to the public address of 256.16.32.70 will
be directed to the internal computer at the address of 192.168.12.25
When using a Virtual IP address, this will have the added function that when ever traffic goes
from 192.168.12.25 to the Internet it will appear to the recipient of that traffic at the other end as
coming from 256.16.32.70.
You should note that if you use Virtual IP addressing with the Port Forwarding enabled you do
not get this reciprocal effect and must use IP pools to make sure that the outbound traffic uses
the specified IP address.
Dynamic NAT
Dynamic NAT maps the private IP addresses to the first available Public Address from a pool of
possible Addresses. In the FortiGate firewall this can be done by using IP Pools.
Overloading
This is a form of Dynamic NAT that maps multiple private IP address to a single Public IP
address but differentiates them by using a different port assignment. This is probably the most
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widely used version of NAT. This is also referred to as PAT (Port Address Translation) or
Masquerading.
An example would be if you had a single IP address assigned to you by your ISP but had 50 or
60 computers on your local network.
Say the internal address of the interface connected to the ISP was 256.16.32.65 (again an
impossible address) with 256.16.32.64 being the remote gateway. If you are using this form of
NAT any time one of your computers accesses the Internet it will be seen from the Internet as
256.16.32.65. If you wish to test this go to 2 different computers and verify that they each have
a different private IP address then go to a site that tells you your IP address such as
www.ipchicken.com. You will see that the site gives the same result of 256.16.32.65, if it
existed, as the public address for both computers.
As mentioned before this is sometimes called Port Address Translation because network device
uses TCP ports to determine which internal IP address is associated with each session through
the network device. For example, if you have a network with internal addresses ranging from
192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.255 and you have 5 computers all trying to connect to a web site
which is normally listening on port 80 all of them will appear to the remote web site to have the
IP address of 256.16.32.65 but they will each have a different sending TCP port, with the port
numbers being somewhere between 1 and 65 535, although the port numbers between 1 to
1024 are usually reserved or already in use. So it could be something like the following:
192.168.1.10 256.16.32.65: port 486
192.168.1.23 256.16.32.65: port 2409
192.168.1.56 256.16.32.65: port 53763
192.168.1.109 256.16.32.65: port 5548
192.168.1.201 256.16.32.65: port 4396
And the remote web server would send the responding traffic back based on those port
numbers so the network device would be able to sort through the incoming traffic and pass it on
to the correct computer.
Overlapping
Because everybody is using the relative same small selection of Private IP addresses it is
inevitable that there will be two networks that share the same network range that will need to
talk with each other. This happens most often over Virtual Private Networks or when one
organization ends up merging with another. This is a case where a private IP address may be
translated into a different private IP address so there are no issues with conflict of addresses or
confusion in terms of routing.
An example of this would be when you have a Main office that is using an IP range of 172.16.0.1
to 172.20.255.255 connecting through a VPN to a recently acquired branch office that is already
running with an IP range of 172.17.1.1 to 172.17.255.255. Both of these ranges are perfectly
valid but because the Branch office range is included in the Main Office range any time the
system from the Main office try to connect to an address in the Branch Office the routing the
system will not send the packet to the default gateway because according to the routing table
the address is in its own subnet.
The plan here would be to NAT in both directions so that traffic from neither side of the firewall
would be in conflict and they would be able to route the traffic. Everything coming from the
Branch Office could be assigned an address in the 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.255 range and
everything from the Main office going to the Branch Office could be assigned to an address in
the 192.168.10.1 to 192.168.10.255 range.
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Benefits of NAT
More IP addresses Available while Conserving Public IP Addresses
As explained earlier, this was the original intent of the technology and does not need to be gone
into further.
Financial Savings
Because an organization does not have to purchase IP addresses for every computer in use
there is a significant cost savings due to using the process of Network Address Translation.
Security Enhancements
One of the side benefits of the process of NAT is an improvement in security. Individual
computers are harder to target from the outside and if port forwarding is being used computers
on the inside of a firewall are less likely to have unmonitored open ports accessible from the
Internet.
Ease of Compartmentalization of Your Network
With a large available pool of IP addresses to use internally a network administrator can arrange
things to be compartmentalized in a rational and easily remembered fashion and networks can
be broken apart easily to isolate for reasons of network performance and security.
Example:
You have a large organization that for security reasons has certain departments that do not
share network resources.
You can have the main section of the organization set up as follows;
Network Devices 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.25
Internal Servers 192.168.1.26 to 192.168.1.50
Printers 192.168.1.51 to 192.168.1.75
Administration Personnel 192.168.1.76 to 192.168.1.100
Sales People 192.168.1.101 to 192.168.1.200
Marketing 192.168.1.201 to 192.168.1.250
You could then have the following groups broken off into separate subnets:
Accounting 192.168.100.1 to 192.168.100.255
Research and Development 172.16.1.1 to 172.16.255.255
Executive Management 192.168.50.1 to 192.168.50.255
Web sites and Email Servers 10.0.50.1 to 10.0.50.255
These addresses do not have to be assigned right away but can be used as planned ranges.
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NAT in Transparent Mode
Similar to operating in NAT mode, when operating a FortiGate unit in Transparent mode you can
add security policies and:
Enable NAT to translate the source addresses of packets as they pass through the FortiGate
unit.
Add virtual IPs to translate destination addresses of packets as they pass through the
FortiGate unit.
Add IP pools as required for source address translation
A FortiGate unit operating in Transparent mode normally has only one IP address - the
management IP. To support NAT in Transparent mode, you can add a second management IP.
These two management IPs must be on different subnets. When you add two management IP
addresses, all FortiGate unit network interfaces will respond to connections to both of these IP
addresses.
Use the following steps to configure NAT in Transparent mode
1. Add two management IPs
2. Add an IP pool to the WAN1 interface
3. Add an Internal to WAN1 security policy
You can add the security policy from the web-based manager and then use the CLI to enable
NAT and add the IP pool.
The usual practice of NATing in transparent mode makes use of two management IP addresses
that are on different subnets, but this is not an essential requirement in every case.
If there is a router between the client systems and the FortiGate unit you can use the routers
capabilities of tracking sessions to assign NATed addresses from an IP pool to the clients even
if the assigned address dont belong to a subnet on your network.
Example:
Client computer has an IP address of 1.1.1.33 on the subnet 1.1.1.0/24
Router A sits between the client computer and the FortiGate (in Transparent mode) with the IP
address of 1.1.1.1 on the clients side of the router and the IP address of 192.168.1.211 on the
FortiGates side of the router.
Use NAT to assign addresses from an address pool of 9.9.9.1 to 9.9.9.99 to traffic coming from
gateway of 192.168.1.211.
To enable the return traffic to get to the original computer, set up a static route than assigns any
traffic with a destination of 9.9.9.0/24 to go through the 192.168.1.211 gateway. As long as the
session for the outgoing traffic has been maintained, communication between the client
computer and the external system on the other side of the FortiGate will work.
Central NAT Table
The central NAT table enables you to define, and control with more granularity, the address
translation performed by the FortiGate unit. With the NAT table, you can define the rules which
dictate the source address or address group and which IP pool the destination address uses.
While similar in functionality to IP pools, where a single address is translated to an alternate
address from a range of IP addresses, with IP pools there is no control over the translated port.
When using the IP pool for source NAT, you can define a fixed port to guarantee the source port
number is unchanged. If no fix port is defined, the port translation is randomly chosen by the
FortiGate unit. With the central NAT table, you have full control over both the IP address and
port translation.
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The FortiGate unit reads the NAT rules in a top-down methodology, until it hits a matching rule
for the incoming address. This enables you to create multiple NAT policies that dictate which IP
pool is used based on the source address. The NAT policies can be rearranged within the policy
list as well. NAT policies are applied to network traffic after a security policy.
NAT 64 and NAT46
NAT64 and NAT46 are the terms used to refer to the mechanism that allows IPv6 addressed
hosts to communicate with IPv4 addressed hosts and vice-versa. Without such a mechanism
an IPv6 node on a network such as a corporate LAN would not be able to communicate with a
web site that was still in a IPv4 only environment and IPv4 environments would not be able to
connect to IPv6 networks.
One of these setups involves having at least 2 interfaces, 1 on an IPv4 network and 1 on an IPv6
network. The NAT64 server synthesizes AAAA records, used by IPv6 from A records used by
IPv4. This way client-server and peer to peer communications will be able to work between an
IPv6 only client and an IPv4 server without making changes to either of the end nodes in the
communication transaction. The IPv6 network attached to the FortiGate unit should be a 32 bit
segment, (for instance 64:ff9b::/96, see RFC 6052[Set up a link to
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6052], RFC 6146[set up a link http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6146]).
IPv4 address will be embedded into the communications from the IPv6 client.
Because the IPv6 range of addresses is so much larger than the IPv4 range, a one to one
mapping is not feasible. Therefore the NAT64 function is required to maintain any IPv6 to IPv4
mappings that it synthesizes. This can be done either statically by the administrator or
automatically by the service as the packets from the IPv6 network go through the device. The
first method would be a stateless translation and the second would be a stateful translation.
NAT64 is designed for communication initiated from IPv6 hosts to IPv4 addresses. It is address
mapping like this that allows the reverse to occur between established connections. The
stateless or manual method is an appropriate solution when the NAT64 translation is taking
place in front of legacy IPv4 servers to allow those specific servers to be accessed by remote
IPv6-only clients. The stateful or automatic solution is best used closer to the client side when
you have to allow some specific IPv6 clients to talk to any of the IPv4-only servers on the
Internet.
There are currently issues with NAT64 not being able to make everything accessible. Examples
would be SIP, Skype, MSN, Goggle talk, and sites with IPv4 literals. IPv4 literals being IPv4
addresses that are imbedded into content rather than a FQDN.
Policies that employ NAT64 or NAT46 can be configured from the web-based manager as long
as the feature is enabled using the Features setting found at System > Config > Features.
To create a NAT64 policy go to Policy > Policy > NAT64 Policy and select Create New.
To create a NAT46 policy go to Policy > Policy > NAT46 Policy and select Create New.
The difference between these NAT policies and regular polices is that there is no option to use
the security profiles and sensors.
NAT 66
NAT 66 is Network Address Translation between 2 IPv6 network. The basic idea behind NAT 66
is no different than the regular NAT between IPv4 networks that we are all used to. The
difference are in the mechanics of how it is performed, mainly because of the complexity and
size of the addresses that are being dealt with.
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In an IPv4 world, the reason for the use of NAT was usually one or a combination of the
following 3 reasons:
Improved security - actual addresses behind NAT are virtually hidden
Amplification of addresses - hundreds of computers can use as little as a single public IP
address
Internal address stability - there is control of internal addressing. The addresses can stay the
same even if Internet Service Providers change.
In these days of security awareness the protective properties of NAT are not something that are
not normally depended on by themselves to defend a network and with the vastly enlarged IPv6
address scope there is no longer a need to amplify the available addresses. However, the desire
to have internal address control still exists. The most common reason for using NAT66 is likely
to be the maintaining of the existing address scheme of the internal network despite changes
outside of it. Imagine that you have an internal network of 2000 IP addresses and one day the
company changes its ISP and thus the addresses assigned to it. Even if most of the addressing
is handled by DHCP, changing the address scheme is going to have an impact on operations.
Addressing stability can be achieved by:
Keeping the same provider - this would depend on the reason for the change. If the cost of
this provider has become too expensive this is unlikely. If the ISP is out of business it
becomes impossible.
Transfer the addresses from the old provider to the new one - There is little motivation for an
ISP to do you a favor for not doing business with them.
Get your own autonomous system number - this can be too expensive for smaller
organizations.
NAT - this is the only one on the list that is in the control of IT.
There are differences between NAT66 and IPv4 NAT. Because there is no shortage of addresses
most organizations will be given a /48 network that can be translated into another /48 network.
This allows for a one to one translation, no need for port forwarding. This is a good thing
because port forwarding is more complicated in IPv6. In fact, NAT66 will actually just be the
rewriting of the prefix on the address.
Example:
If your current IPv6 address is
2001:db8:cafe::/48
you could change it to
2001:db8:fea7::/48
There is an exception to the one to one translation. NAT66 cannot translate internal networks
that contain 0xffff in bits 49 through 63 - this is due to the way checksums are calculated in
TCP/IP: they use the one's-complement representation of numbers which assigns the value
zero to both 0x0000 and 0xffff.
How Packets are handled by FortiOS
To give you idea of what happens to a packet as it makes its way through the FortiGate unit here
is a brief overview. This particular trip of the packet is starting on the Internet side of the
FortiGate firewall and ends with the packet exiting to the Internal network. An outbound trip
would be similar. At any point in the path if the packet is going through what would be
considered a filtering process and if fails the filter check the packet is dropped and does not
continue any further down the path.
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This information is covered in more detail in other in the Troubleshooting chapter of the FortiOS
Handbook in the Life of a Packet section.
The incoming packet arrives at the external interface. This process of entering the device is
referred to as ingress.
Step #1 - Ingress
1. Denial of Service Sensor
2. IP integrity header checking
3. IPSec connection check
4. Destination NAT
5. Routing
Step #2 - Stateful Inspection Engine
1. Session Helpers
2. Management Traffic
3. SSL VPN
4. User Authentication
5. Traffic Shaping
6. Session Tracking
7. Policy lookup
Step #3 - Security Profiles scanning process
1. Flow-based Inspection Engine
2. IPS
3. Application Control
4. Data Leak Prevention
5. Email Filter
6. Web Filter
7. Anti-virus
8. Proxy-based Inspection Engine
9. VoIP Inspection
10.Data Leak Prevention
11.Email Filter
12.Web Filter
13.Anti-virus
14.ICAP
Step #4 - Egress
1. IPSec
2. Source NAT
3. Routing
FortiGate Modes
The FortiGate unit has a choice of modes that it can be used in, either NAT/Route mode or
Transparent mode. The FortiGate unit is able to operate as a firewall in both modes, but some of
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its features are limited in Transparent mode. It is always best to choose which mode you are
going to be using at the beginning of the set up. Once you start configuring the device, if you
want to change the mode you are going to lose all configuration settings in the change process.
NAT/Route Mode
NAT/Route mode is the most commonly used mode by a significant margin and is thus the
default setting on the device. As the name implies the function of NAT is commonly used in this
mode and is easily configured but there is no requirement to use NAT. The FortiGate unit
performs network address translation before IP packets are sent to the destination network.
These are some of the characteristics of NAT/Route mode:
Typically used when the FortiGate unit is a gateway between private and public networks.
Can act as a router between multiple networks within a network infrastructure.
When used, the FortiGate unit is visible to the networks that is connected to.
Each logical interface is on a distinct subnet.
Each Interface needs to be assigned a valid IP address for the subnet that it is connected to
it.
Transparent Mode
Transparent mode is so named because the device is effectively transparent in that it does not
appear on the network in the way that other network devices show as a nodes in the path of
network traffic. Transparent mode is typically used to apply the FortiOS features such as
Security Profiles etc. on a private network where the FortiGate unit will be behind an existing
firewall or router.
These are some of the characteristics of Transparent mode:
The FortiGate unit is invisible to the network.
All of its interfaces are on the same subnet and share the same IP address.
The FortiGate unit uses a Management IP address for the purposes of Administration.
Still able to use NAT to a degree, but the configuration is less straightforward
In Transparent mode, you can also perform NAT by creating a security policy or policies that
translates the source addresses of packets passing through the FortiGate unit as well as virtual
IP addresses and/or IP pools.
Quality of Service
The Quality of Service (QoS) feature allows the management of the level of service and
preference given to the various types and sources of traffic going through the firewall so that the
traffic that is important to the services and functions connecting through the firewall gets the
treatment required to ensure the level of quality that is required. QoS can be helpful for
organizations that are trying to manage their voice and streaming multi-media traffic, which can
rapidly consume bandwidth. Both voice and streaming multi-media are sensitive to latency.
FortiGate units support QoS using traffic policing, traffic shaping, and queuing.
Traffic policing
Packets are dropped that do not conform to bandwidth limitations
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Traffic Shaping
Assigning minimum levels of bandwidth to be allocated to specific traffic flows to guarantee
levels of service or assigning maximum levels of bandwidth to be allocated to specific traffic
flows so that they do not impede other flows of traffic.
This helps to ensure that the traffic may consume bandwidth at least at the guaranteed rate by
assigning a greater priority queue if the guarantee is not being met. Traffic shaping also ensures
that the traffic cannot consume bandwidth greater than the maximum at any given instant in
time. Flows that are greater than the maximum rate are subject to traffic policing.
Queuing
Assigning differing levels of priority to different traffic flows so that traffic flows that are
adversely effected by latency are prevented from being effected by traffic flows that are not
subject to the effects of latency. All traffic in a higher priority traffic queue must be completely
transmitted before traffic in lower priority queues will be transmitted.
An example of where you would want to use something like this is if you had competing traffic
flows of Voice over IP traffic and email traffic. The VoIP traffic is highly susceptible to latency
issues. If you have a delay of a few seconds it is quickly noticeable when it is occurring. Email
on the other hand can have a time delay of much longer and it is highly unlikely that it will be
noticed at all.
By default, the priority given to any traffic is high, so if you want to give one type of traffic
priority over all other traffic you will need to lower the priority of all of the other traffic.
For additional information about QoS, see the Traffic Shaping chapter of the FortiOS Handbook.
Interfaces and Zones
A Firewall is a gateway device that may be the nexus point for more than 2 networks. The
interface that the traffic is coming in on and should be going out on is a fundamental concern
for the purposes of routing as well as security. Routing, policies and addresses are all
associated with interfaces. The interface is essentially the connection point of a subnet to the
FortiGate unit and once connected can be connected to other subnets.
Physical interfaces or not the only ones that need to be considered. There are also virtual
interfaces that can be applied to security policies. VLANs are one such virtual interface.
Interfaces if certain VPN tunnels are another.
Polices are the foundation of the traffic control in a firewall and the Interfaces and addressing is
the foundation that policies are based upon. Using the identity of the interface that the traffic
connects to the FortiGate unit tells the firewall the initial direction of the traffic. The direction of
the traffic is one of the determining factors in deciding how the traffic should be dealt with. You
can tell that interfaces are a fundamental part of the policies because, by default, this is the
criteria that the polices are sorted by.
Zones are a mechanism that was created to help in the administration of the firewalls. If you
have a FortiGate unit with a large number of ports and a large number of nodes in you network
the chances are high that there is going to be some duplication of policies. Zones provide the
option of logically grouping multiple virtual and physical FortiGate firewall interfaces. The zones
can then be used to apply security policies to control the incoming and outgoing traffic on those
interfaces. This helps to keep the administration of the firewall simple and maintain consistency.
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For example you may have several floors of people and each of the port interfaces could go to a
separate floor where it connects to a switch controlling a different subnet. The people may be
on different subnets but in terms of security they have the same requirements. If there were 4
floors and 4 interfaces a separate policy would have to be written for each floor to be allowed
out on to the Internet off the WAN1 interface. This is not too bad if that is all that is being done,
but now start adding the use of more complicated policy scenarios with Security Profiles, then
throw in a number of Identity based issues and then add the complication that people in that
organization tend to move around in that building between floors with their notebook
computers. Each time a policy is created for each of those floors there is a chance of an
inconsistency cropping up. Rather than make up an additional duplicate set of policies for each
floor, a zone can be created that combines multiple interfaces. And then a single policy can
created that uses that zone as one side of the traffic connection.
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Firewall objects
As was mentioned earlier, the components of the FortiGate firewall go together like interlocking
building blocks. The Firewall objects are a prime example of those building blocks. They are
something that can be configured once and then used over and over again to build what you
need. They can assist in making the administration of the FortiGate unit easier and more
intuitive as well as easier to change. By configuring these objects with their future use in mind
as well as building in accurate descriptions the firewall will become almost self documenting.
That way, months later when a situation changes, you can take a look at a policy that needs to
change and use a different firewall object to adapt to the new situation rather than build
everything new from the ground up to accommodate the change.
This chapter includes information about the following Firewall objects:
Addresses
Services and TCP ports
Firewall schedules
Security profiles
UUID Support
A Universally Unique Identified (UUID) attribute has been added to some firewall objects, so that
the logs can record these UUID to be used by a FortiManager or FortiAnalyzer unit. The objects
currently include:
Addresses, both IPv4 and IPv6
Address Groups, both IPv4 and IPv6
Virtual IPs, both IPv4 and IPv6
Virtual IP groups, both IPv4 and IPv6
Policies, IPv4,IPv6 and IP64
A UUID is a 16-octet (128-bit) number that is represented by 32 lowercase hexidecimal digits.
The digits are displayed in five groups separated by hyphens (-). The pattern is 8-4-4-4-12; 36
digits if you include the hyphens.
NOTE: UUID is only supported on large-partition platforms (>=128M)
Addresses
Firewall addresses define sources and destinations of network traffic and are used when
creating policies. When properly set up these firewall objects can be used with great flexibility to
make the configuration of firewall policies simpler and more intuitive. The FortiGate unit
compares the IP addresses contained in packet headers with a security policys source and
destination addresses to determine if the security policy matches the traffic.
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The addresses in the FortiGate unit can include:
IPv4 addresses
IPv6 addresses
IPv4 Address Groups
IPv6 Address Groups
IP Pools
Virtual IP Addresses
Geography based addresses
Wildcard addresses and netmasks
Fully Qualified Domain Name addresses
Multicast addresses
Interfaces
When setting up an address one of the parameters that is asked for is the interface. This means
that the system will expect to see that address only on the interface that you select. You can
only select one interface. If you expect that the address may be seen at more than one interface
you can choose the any interface option. Whenever, possible it is best to choose a more
specific interface than the any option because in the GUI configuration of firewall policies
there is a drop down field that will show the possible addresses that can be used. The drop
down will only show those addresses that can be on the interface assigned for that interface in
the policy.
Example:
You have an address called XYZ
XYZ is set to the WAN1 interface because that is the only interface that will be able to
access that address.
When you are selecting a Source Address in the Web-based Manager for a policy that is
using the DMZ the address XYZ will not be in the drop-down menu.
When there are only 10 or 20 addresses this is not a concern, but if there are a few hundred
addresses configured it can make your life easier.
Addresses, address groups, and virtual IPs must have unique names to avoid confusion in
firewall policies. If an address is selected in a policy, the address cannot be deleted until it is
deselected from the policy.
Addressing Best Practices Tip
The other reason to assign a specific interface to addresses is that it will prevent you from
accidentally assigning an address where it will not work properly. Using the example from
earlier, if the XYZ address was assigned to the Any interface instead of WAN1 and you
configure the XYZ address.
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IPv4 Addresses
When creating an IPv4 address there are a number of different types of addresses that can be
specified. These include:
Subnet
IP Range
FQDN
Geography
URL Pattern (Explicit Proxy)
Which one chosen will depend on which method most easily yet accurately describes the
addresses that you are trying to include with as few entries as possible based on the
information that you have. For instance, if you are trying to discribe the addresses of a specific
companys web server but it you have no idea of how extensive there webserver farm is you
would be more likely to use a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) rather than a specific IP
address. On the other hand some computers dont have FQDNs and a specific IP address must
be used.
The following is a more comprehesive description of the differnt types of addresses.
Subnet Addresses
The subnet type of address is expressed using a host address and a subnet mask. From a
strickly mathematical stand point this is the most flexible of the types because it can refer to as
little as the address for one computer or as many as all of them.
It is usally used when refering to your own internal addresses because you know what they are
and they are usually administered in groups that are nicely deferentiated along the lines of the
old A, B, and C classes of IPv4 addresses. They are also addresses that are not likely to change
with the changing of Internet Service Providers (ISP).
When representing hosts by an IP address with a netmask, the IP address can represent one or
more hosts. For example, a firewall address can be:
A single host such as a single computer with the address 192.45.46.45
A range of hosts such as all of the hosts on the subnet 192.45.46.1 to 192.45.46.255
All hosts, represented by 0.0.0.0 which matches any IP address
The netmask corresponds to the subnet class of the address being added, and can be
represented in either dotted decimal or CIDR format. The FortiGate unit automatically converts
CIDR formatted netmasks to dotted decimal format. Example formats:
Netmask for a class A subnet of 16,777,214 usable addresses: 255.0.0.0, or /8
Netmask for a class B subnet of 65,534 usable addresses: 255.255.0.0, or /16
Netmask for a class C subnet of 254 usable addresses: 255.255.255.0, or /24
Netmask for subnetted class C of 126 usable addresses: 255.255.255.128, or /25
Netmask for subnetted class C of 62 usable addresses: 255.255.255.128, or /26
Netmask for subnetted class C of 30 usable addresses: 255.255.255.128, or /27
Netmask for subnetted class C of 14 usable addresses: 255.255.255.128, or /28
Netmask for subnetted class C of 6 usable addresses: 255.255.255.128, or /29
Netmask for subnetted class C of 2 usable addresses: 255.255.255.128, or /30
Netmask for a single computer: 255.255.255.255, or /32
Netmask used with 0.0.0.0 to include all IP addresses: 0.0.0.0, or /0
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So for a single host or subnet the valid format of IP address and netmask could be either:
x.x.x.x/x.x.x.x, such as 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
or
x.x.x.x/x, such as 192.168.1.0/24
Creating a Subnet address
1. Go to Policy & Objects > Objects > Addresses.
2. Select Create New.
If you use the down arrow next to Create New, select Address.
3. Choose the Category, Address.
4. Input a Name for the address object.
5. Select the Type Subnet from the dropdown menu.
6. Input the host address and subnet mask in the Subnet / IP Range field.
7. Select the Interface from the dropdown menu.
8. Check the Visibility box.
9. Input any additional information in the Comments field.
10.Press OK.
Example
Example of a Subnet address for a database server on the DMZ
Category Address
Name DB_server_1
Type Subnet
Subnet / IP Range 192.168.50.26
Interface DMZ
Visibility [checked]
Comments Database server used by public facing company webservers
IP Range Addresses
Where the Subnet address is good a representing a standardized group of addresses that are
subnets the IP Range type of address can describe a group of addresses while being specific
and granular. It does this by specifying a continuous set of IP addresses between one specific
IP address and another. While it is most common that this range is with a subnet it is not a
requirement. For instance, 192.168.1.0/24 and 192.168.2.0/24 would be 2 separate subnets but
if you wanted to descript the top half of one and the bottom half of the other you could describe
the range of 192.168.1.128-192.168.2.127. Its also a lot easier that trying to calculate the
correct subnet mask.
The format would be:
x.x.x.x-x.x.x.x, such as 192.168.110.100-192.168.110.120
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There is a notation that is commonly used and accepted by some devices that follows the
format:
x.x.x.[x-x], such as 192.168.110.[100-120]
This format is not recognized in FortiOS 5.2 as a valid IP Range.
Creating a IP Range address
1. Go to Policy & Objects > Objects > Addresses.
2. Select Create New.
If you use the down arrow next to Create New, select Address.
3. Choose the Category, Address.
4. Input a Name for the address object.
5. Select the Type IP Range from the dropdown menu.
6. Input the host address and subnet mask in the Subnet / IP Range field.
7. Select the Interface from the dropdown menu.
8. Check the Visibility box.
9. Input any additional information in the Comments field.
10.Press OK.
Example
Example of a IP Range address for a group of computers set aside for guests on the company
network.
Category Address
Name Guest_users
Type IP Range
Subnet / IP Range 192.168.100.200-192.168.100.240
Interface Port1
Visibility [checked]
Comments Computers on the 1st floor used by guests for Internet access.
IP Range addresses can now be configured for IPv6 addresses. The only differences in creating
an IPv6 IP Range address is that you would choose IPv6 Address for the Category and the
syntax of the address in the Subnet/IP Range field would be in the format of
2001:0db8:0000:0002:0:0:0:20-2001:0db8:0000:0004:0:0:0:20
FQDN Addresses
By using Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) addressing you can take advantage of the
dynamic ability of the service to keep up with address changes without having to manually
change the addresses on the FortiGate. FQDN addresses are most often used with external
web sites but they can be used for internal web sites as well if there is a trusted DNS server that
can be accessed. FQDN addressing also comes in handy for large web sites that may use
multiple addresses and load balancers for their web sites. The FortiGate firewall automatically
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maintains a cached record of all the addresses resolved by the DNS for the FQDN addresses
used.
For example, if you were doing this manually and you wanted to have a security policy that
involved Google you could track down all of the IP addresses that they use across multiple
countries. Using the FQDN address is simpler and more convenient.
When representing hosts by an FQDN, the domain name can also be a subdomain, such as
mail.example.com.
Valid FQDN formats include:
<host_name>.<top_level_domain_name> such as example.com
<host_name>.<second_level_domain_name>.<top_level_domain_name>, such as
mail.example.com
The FortiGate firewall keeps track of the DNS TTLs so as the entries change on the DNS servers
the IP address will effectively be updated for the FortiGate. As long as the FQDN address is
used in a security policy, it stores the address in the DNS cache.
There is a possible security downside to using FQDN addresses. Using a fully qualified domain
name in a security policy means that your policies are relying on the DNS server to be accurate
and correct. DNS servers in the past were not seen as potential targets because the thinking
was that there was little of value on them and therefore are often not as well protected as some
other network resources. People are becoming more aware that the value of the DNS server is
that in many ways it controls where users and computers go on the Internet. Should the DNS
server be compromised, security policies requiring domain name resolution may no longer
function properly.
IPv6 does not support geography-based addressing. This feature is for IPv4 addresses only.
Creating a Fully Qualified Domain Name address
1. Go to Policy & Objects > Objects > Addresses.
2. Select Create New.
If you use the down arrow next to Create New, select Address.
3. Choose the Category, Address.
4. Input a Name for the address object.
5. Select the Type FQDN from the dropdown menu.
6. Input the domain name in the FQDN field.
7. Select the Interface from the dropdown menu.
8. Check the Visibility box.
9. Input any additional information in the Comments field.
10.Press OK.
Example
Example of a FQDN addresss for a remote FTP server used by Accounting team.
Category Address
Name Payroll_FTP_server
Type FQDN
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Geography Based Addresses
Geography based addressing enables you to design policies based on addresses that are
associated with a country.
This feature can be used to make either inclusive or exclusive policies. For instance, if you have
a SSL VPN where the users will only be connecting from a single country, but you dont know
from where in that country, you can filter out any connections coming in that are from outside
that country.
On the other side of the equation, if you find that you are constantly being attacked by malicious
intruders from a few countries that you have no dealings with you can block access to them
before any traffic comes through.
The matching of geographical country designations to an IP address is achieved by collecting
data from any IP addresses that connect to any of the FortiGuard Servers throughout the world.
As a secondary task, when a FortiGuard server connects to an IP it also does a search on the
Country of origin for the address and updates the database.
There is no single comprehensive list of IP addresses and their locations available because IP
addresses can be transferred between ISPs or countries and some organization may not keep
complete or up-to-date records regarding locations. FortiGuard Services are constantly
updating their database of addresses matched to locations, but the database is dynamic and
there may be addresses that have not been resolved to a location. While this means that there
can be gaps in the completeness of the database it is possible to fill them in manually by means
local to your FortiGate unit.
IPv6 does not support geography-based addressing. This feature is for IPv4 addresses only.
Best Practices Tip:
Based on the limitation of the IP address matched to country database, it is best to use this
type of address in a group with other addresses to fill in the gaps. For instance, if you are a
company in Country A and all of your employees that will be using the SSL-VPN connection
are in that country, the best practice would be to create an address group that includes the
geographical address of Country A. As valid addresses appear that are not allowed, you can
add these other IPs to that group using IP addresses or IP range addresses without having to
change the policy itself.
If you are trying to block addresses the principle works just the same. Your logs show that
someone from IP address x.x.x.x has been trying to connect inappropriately to your network.
You use a IP locator web site to determine that they have been attempting to connect from
Country X. Up until now they have not been successful, but you dont deal with the country
they are connecting from so dont mind blocking the whole country. Create an address group
that is designed for Blocking Access to any addresses in it, then add the geographical address
for Country X. Even if the policy does not block every single IP address from that country you
have greatly increased your odds of blocking potential intrusion attempts. As your logs show
other attempts you can look them up in an IP locator web site and if they are from the same
country you can add the IP address for the subnet that they are connecting from.
FQDN ftp.payrollcompany.com
Interface any
Visibility [checked]
Comments Third party FTP server used by Payroll.
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Creating a Geography address
1. Go to Policy & Objects > Objects > Addresses.
2. Select Create New.
If you use the down arrow next to Create New, select Address.
3. Choose the Category, Address.
4. Input a Name for the address object.
5. Select the Type, Geography from the dropdown menu.
6. Select the country from the dropdown menu in the Country field.
The bottom of the dropdown menu has a search field so that you dont have to scroll through
the entire list of countries.
7. Select the Interface from the dropdown menu.
8. Check the Visibility box.
9. Input any additional information in the Comments field.
10.Press OK.
Example
Example of a Geography address for a country that should be able to access resourses on the
network.
Category Address
Name United States
Type Geography
Country United States
Interface any
Visibility [checked]
Comments
URL Pattern address
This address is different from the other addresses in that it is not designed to be used in the
normal firewall policy configuration. It is intented to be used only with explicit web proxies, and
then only as a desination. In some respects it is like a FQDN address in that it uses DNS to look
up the IP address that represents but it then goes a little more granular and further filters by the
url that is used to specify a location within the website itself. Wildcard characters can even be
used to keep the address from being too granular.
Creating a IP Range address
1. Go to Policy & Objects > Objects > Addresses.
2. Select Create New.
If you use the down arrow next to Create New, select Address.
3. Choose the Category, Address.
4. Input a Name for the address object.
5. Select the Type, URL Pattern (Explicit Proxy) from the dropdown menu.
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6. Enter the URL value.
7. Select the Interface from the dropdown menu.
8. Check the Visibility box.
9. Input any additional information in the Comments field.
10.Press OK.
Example
Example of a URL pattern address for a wiki on the example.com website.
Category Address
Name Example.com_wiki
Type URL Pattern (Explicit Proxy)
URL Pattern example.com/wiki/*
Interface any
Visibility [checked]
Comments <optional>
Address Groups
Address groups are designed for ease of use in the administration of the device. If you have a
number of addresses or address ranges that will commonly be treated the same or require the
same security policies, you can put them into address groups, rather than entering multiple
individual addresses in each policy refers to them.
The use of groups is not required. If you have a number of different addresses you could add
them individually to a policy and the FortiGate firewall will process them just as quickly and
efficiently as if they were in a group, but the chances are that if you have used a group once you
could need to use it again and depending on the number of addresses involved entering them
individually for each policy can become tedious and the likelihood of an address being missed
becomes greater. If you have a number of policies using that combination of addresses it is
much easier to add or subtract addresses from the group than to try and remember all of the
firewall policies that combination of addresses was used in. With the group, you only have to
make the one edit and it is used by any firewall policy using that address group.
Because security policies require addresses with homogenous network interfaces, address
groups should contain only addresses bound to the same network interface, or to Any.
For example, if address 1.1.1.1 is associated with port1, and address 2.2.2.2 is associated with
port2, they cannot be in the same group. However, if 1.1.1.1 and 2.2.2.2 are configured with an
interface of Any, they can be grouped, even if the addresses involve different networks.
IPv4 address groups and IPv6 address groups are created and treated separately. You cannot
mix IPv4 firewall addresses and IPv6 firewall addresses in the same address group. Because
the Internet is currently based on IPv4 addresses IPv6 address groups cannot include FQDN or
Geography based addresses.
Creating an Address Group
The method for creating either a IPv4 group or an IPv6 group is idential except for the selection
of Type.
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1. Go to Policy & Objects > Objects > Addresses.
2. Select the down arrow next to Create New, select Address Group.
3. Choose the Type, that is applicable to the proposed sellection of addresses.
4. Input a Group Name for the address object.
5. Check the Show in Address List box.
6. Next to Members there is a dropdown menu that can be used to select from the available
Address objects. It is possible to select more than 1 entry. Just select the green plus sign
next to the field to add an additional entry. Select the X icon in the field to remove an entry.
7. Input any additional information in the Comments field.
8. Press OK.
UUID Support
CLI Syntax
config firewall {address|addres6|addgrp|addgrp6}
edit 1
set uuid <example uuid: 8289ef80-f879-51e2-20dd-fa62c5c51f44>
next
end
Virtual IPs
The mapping of a specific IP address to another specific IP address is usually referred to as
Destination NAT. FortiOS has a component that is a bit more specialized along this line called a
Virtual IP Address, sometimes referred to as a VIP. FortiOS uses a Virtual IP address to map an
External IP address to an IP address. This address does not have to be an individual host, it can
also be an address range. This mapping can include all TCP/UDP ports or if Port Forwarding is
enabled it will only refer to the specific ports configured.
Virtual IP addresses are typically used to NAT external or Public IP addresses to internal or
Private IP addresses. Using a Virtual IP address between 2 internal Interfaces made up of
Private IP addresses is possible but there is rarely a reason to do so as the 2 networks can just
use the IP addresses of the networks without the need for any address translation. Using a
Virtual IP address for traffic going from the inside to the Internet is even less likely to be a
requirement, but it is supported.
Something that needs to be considered when there are multiple Public IP addresses on the
external interface(s) is that when a Virtual IP address is used without Port Forwarding enabled
there is a reciprocal effect as far as traffic flow is concerned. Normally, on a firewall policy where
NAT is enabled, for outgoing traffic the internal address is translated to the Public address that
is assigned to the FortiGate, but if there is a Virtual IP address with no port forwarding enabled,
then the Internal IP address in the Mapped field would be translated to the IP address
configured as the External Address in the VIP settings.
Example:
The assigned External address (WAN1) of the FortiGate unit is 172.12.96.3 with a subnet
mask of 255.255.255.128
There is a Virtual IP address set up to map the external address 172.12.96.127 on WAN1 to
the internal IP address of 192.168.1.127
Port Forwarding is not enabled because you want all allowed traffic going to the external IP
address to go to this server.
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In this case any outbound traffic from 192.168.1.127 will go out on WAN1 with the IP address of
172.12.96.127 as the source IP address.
In terms of actually using the Virtual IP address, they would be using in the security policies in
the same places that other addresses would be used, usually as a Destination Address.
UUID Support for VIP
UUID is now supported in for virtual IPs and virtual IP groups. This includes virtual IPs for IPv4,
IPv6, NAT46, and NAT64. To view the UUID for these objects in a FortiGate unit's logs, log-uuid
must be set to extended mode, rather than policy-only (which only shows the policy UUID in a
traffic log). UUID can only be configured through the CLI
Syntax
config sys global
set log-uuid {disable | policy-only | extended}
end
Dynamic VIP according to DNS translation
When a dynamic virtual IP is used in a policy, the dynamic DNS translation table is installed
along with the dynamic NAT translation table into the kernel. All matched DNS responses will be
translated and recorded regardless if they hit the policy. When a client request hits the policy,
dynamic NAT translation will occur if it matches a record, otherwise the traffic will be blocked.
Syntax
config firewall vip
edit "1"
set type dns-translation
set extip 192.168.0.1-192.168.0.100
set extintf "dmz"
set dns-mapping-ttl 604800
set mappedip "3.3.3.0/24" "4.0.0.0/24"
end
end
Creating a Virtual IP
1. Go to Policy & Objects > Objects > Virtual IPs.
2. Select Create New.
If you use the down arrow next to Create New, select Virtual IP.
There is another type of address that the term virtual IP address commonly refers to which is
used in load balancing and other similar configurations. In those cases, a number of devices
share a separately created virtual IP address that can be sent to multiple possible devices. In
FortiOS these are referred to as Virtual Servers and are configured in the Load Balance
section.
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3. Choose the VIP Type.
The options available are:
a. IPv4 VIP - IPv4 on both sides of the FortiGate Unit.
b. IPv6 VIP - IPv6 on both sides of the FortiGate Unit.
c. NAT46 VIP - Going from an IPv4 Network to an IPv6 Network.
d. NAT64 VIP - Going from an IPv6 Network to an IPv4 Network.
Which is chosen will depend on which of the IP version networks is on the external
interface of the FortiGate unit and which is on the internal interface.
4. Input a Name for the Virtual IP.
5. Input any additional information in the Comments field.
6. Using the dropdown menu for the Interface Field, choose the incoming interface for the
traffic.
The IPv4 VIP Type is the only one that has a field for the interface. This is a legacy function
from previous versions so that they can be upgraded without complicated reconfigureation.
The External IP address, which is a required field, tells the unit which interface to use so it is
perfectly acceptable to choose Any as the interface. In some configurations, if the Interface
field is not set to Any the VIP is not one of the displayed options when choosing a
destination address.
7. If only specific IP addresses are allowed to be the source address for traffic uing the VIP,
check the box for the Source Address Filter.
a. To specific the allowed address range select Create New.
b. Enter the ip address for the start of the set of IP address(es) in the Range Start field.
c. Enter the ip address for the end of the set of IP address(es) in the Range End field.
8. Enter the IP address for the External IP Address/Range.
If there is a single IP address, use that address in both fields.
9. Set the Mapped IP Type.
This will be either Subnet or Address Range.
If you only have a single destination address you can use either:
Subnet: x.x.x.x/32
Address Range: x.x.x.x - x.x.x.x, where x.x.x.x is the same IP address.
10.Enter the IP address(es) for the Mapped IP Address/Range.
This will be the address of the host that the traffic is being directed to.
11.If you are only going to use specific ports, enable Port Forwarding.
a. Select one of 3 Protocol types:
TCP
UDP
SCTP
b. Enter the port number or range that the traffic will be connecting to in the External Service
Port fields.
c. Enter the port number or range that is the final destination of the traffic in the Map to Port
fields
12.Press OK.
Example
This example is for a VIP that is being used to direct traffic from the external IP address to a
webserver on the internal network.The webserver is for company use only. The companys
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public facing webserver already used port 80 and there is only one IP external IP address so the
traffic for this server is being listened for on port 8080 of the external interface and being sent to
port 80 on the internal host.
VIP Type IPv4
Name Internal_Webserver
Comments Webserver with Colaboration tools for Corporate employees
Interface Any
Source Address
Filter
<list of IP addresses of remote users>
External IP
Address/Range
172.13.100.27 <this would normally be a public IP address
Mapped IP Type Subnet
Mapped IP
Address/Range
192.168.34.150
Port Forwarding enabled
Protocol TCP
External Service
Port
8080 - 8080
Map to Port 80 - 80
Virtual IP Groups
Just like other address, Virtual IP addresses can be organized into groups for ease of
administration. If you have multiple virtual IPs that are likely to be associated to common firewall
policies rather than add them individually to each of the policies you can add the instead. That
way, if the members of the group change then any changes made to the group will propagate to
all of the polices using that group.
When using a Virtual IP address group the firewall policy will take into account all of the
configured parameters of the Virtual IPs: IP addresses, Ports and port types.
Creating a Virtual IP Group
1. Go to Policy & Objects > Objects > Virtual IPs.
2. Use the down arrow next to Create New, select Virtual IP Group.
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3. Select the Type fo VIP group you wish to create.
The options available are:
a. IPv4 VIP - IPv4 on both sides of the FortiGate Unit.
b. IPv6 VIP - IPv6 on both sides of the FortiGate Unit.
c. NAT46 VIP - Going from an IPv4 Network to an IPv6 Network.
d. NAT64 VIP - Going from an IPv6 Network to an IPv4 Network.
Which is chosen will depend on which of the IP version networks is on the external interface
of the FortiGate unit and which is on the internal interface.The options will be:
4. Enter a Name for the VIP
5. Enter any additional information in the Comments field.
6. Use the dropdown menu of the Interface field to select the interface that the member VIPs
are associated with, if any.
7. Use the dropdown menu fo the Members field to select the VIPs that will be part of the
group.
8. Press OK.
IP Pools
IP Pools are a mechanism that allow sessions leaving the FortiGate Firewall to use NAT. An IP
pool defines a single IP address or a range of IP addresses to be used as the source address for
the duration of the session. These assigned addresses will be used instead of the IP address
assigned to that FortiGate interface.
When using IP pools for NATing, there is a limitation that must be taken into account when
configuring the pool. If the IP address(es) within the pool are different from the IP address(es)
that are assigned to the interface communications based on those IP addresses will fail. For
example if the IP addresses assigned to an interface are 172.16.100.1 -172.16.100.14, you
cannot choose 10.11.12.50 - 10.11.12.59 for the IP pool.
There are 4 types of IP Pools that can be configured on the FortiGate firewall:
One-to-One - in this case the only internal address used by the external address is the
internal address that it is mapped to.
Overload - this is the default setting. Internal addresses other than the one designated in the
policy can use this address for the purposes of NAT.
Fixed Port Range - rather than a single address to be used, there is a range of addresses
that can be used as the NAT address. These addresses are randomly assigned as the
connections are made.
Port Block Allocation - this setting is used to allocate a block of port numbers for IP pool
users. Two variables will also have to be set. The block size can be set from 64 to 4096 and
as the name implies describes the number of ports in one block of port numbers. The
number of blocks per user determines how many of these blocks will be assigned. This
number can range from 1 to 128.
Be careful when calculating the values of the variables. The maximum number of ports that are
available on an address is 65,536. If you chose the maximum value for both variables you will
get a number far in excess of the available port numbers.
4096 x 128 = 524,288
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One of the more common examples is when you have an email server behind your FortiGate
firewall and the range of IP addresses assigned to you by your ISP is more than one. If an
organization is assigned multiple IP addresses it is normally considered a best practice to
assign a specific address other than the one used for the Firewall to the mail server. However,
when normal NAT is used the address assigned to the firewall is also assigned to any outbound
sessions. Anti-spam services match the source IP address of mail traffic that they receive to the
MX record on DNS servers as an indicator for spam. If there is a mismatch the mail may not get
through so there is a need to make sure that the NATed address assigned matches the MX
record.
You can also use the Central NAT table as a way to configure IP pools.
Source IP address and IP pool address matching when using a range
When the source addresses are translated to an IP pool that is a range of addresses, one of the
following three cases may occur:
Scenario 1:
The number of source addresses equals that of IP pool addresses
In this case, the FortiGate unit always matches the IP addressed one to one.
If you enable fixed port in such a case, the FortiGate unit preserves the original source port. This
may cause conflicts if more than one security policy uses the same IP pool, or the same IP
addresses are used in more than one IP pool.
Scenario 2:
The number of source addresses is more than that of IP pool addresses
In this case, the FortiGate unit translates IP addresses using a wrap-around mechanism. If you
enable fixed port in such a case, the FortiGate unit preserves the original source port. But
conflicts may occur since users may have different sessions using the same TCP 5 tuples.
Scenario 3:
The number of source addresses is fewer than that of IP pool addresses
In this case, some of the IP pool addresses are used and the rest of them are not be used.
ARP Replies
If a FortiGate firewall interface IP address overlaps with one or more IP pool address ranges, the
interface responds to ARP requests for all of the IP addresses in the overlapping IP pools. For
example, consider a FortiGate unit with the following IP addresses for the port1 and port2
interfaces:
port1 IP address: 1.1.1.1/255.255.255.0 (range is 1.1.1.0-1.1.1.255)
port2 IP address: 2.2.2.2/255.255.255.0 (range is 2.2.2.0-2.2.2.255)
And the following IP pools:
IP_pool_1: 1.1.1.10-1.1.1.20
IP_pool_2: 2.2.2.10-2.2.2.20
IP_pool_3: 2.2.2.30-2.2.2.40
The port1 interface overlap IP range with IP_pool_1 is:
(1.1.1.0-1.1.1.255) and (1.1.1.10-1.1.1.20) = 1.1.1.10-1.1.1.20
The port2 interface overlap IP range with IP_pool_2 is:
(2.2.2.0-2.2.2.255) & (2.2.2.10-2.2.2.20) = 2.2.2.10-2.2.2.20
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The port2 interface overlap IP range with IP_pool_3 is:
(2.2.2.0-2.2.2.255) & (2.2.2.30-2.2.2.40) = 2.2.2.30-2.2.2.40
And the result is:
The port1 interface answers ARP requests for 1.1.1.10-1.1.1.20
The port2 interface answers ARP requests for 2.2.2.10-2.2.2.20 and for 2.2.2.30-2.2.2.40
Select Enable NAT in a security policy and then select Dynamic IP Pool. Select an IP pool to
translate the source address of packets leaving the FortiGate unit to an address randomly
selected from the IP pool. Whether or not the external address of an IP Pool will respond to an
ARP request can be disabled. You might want to disable the ability to responded to ARP
requests so that these address cannot be used as a way into your network or show up on a port
scan.
IP pools and zones
Because IP pools are associated with individual interfaces
IP pools cannot be set up for a zone. IP pools are connected to individual interfaces.
Creating a Dynamic IP Pool
A dynamic IP pool is essintially one in which the IP address that is assigned to the sending
computer is not known until the session is created, therefore at the very least it will have to be a
pool of at least 2 potential addresses. A quick example would be an IP pool for users of a VPN.
IP Pool Type IPv4 Pool
Name Sales_Group_VPN_Users
Comments <optional>
Type One-to-One
External IP Range 10.23.0.50 - 10.23.0.75
ARP Reply [checked]
Fixed Port
Some network configurations do not operate correctly if a NAT policy translates the source port
of packets used by the connection. NAT translates source ports to keep track of connections for
a particular service.
However, enabling the use of a fixed port means that only one connection can be supported
through the firewall for this service. To be able to support multiple connections, add an IP pool,
and then select Dynamic IP pool in the policy. The firewall randomly selects an IP address from
the IP pool and assigns it to each connection. In this case, the number of connections that the
firewall can support is limited by the number of IP addresses in the IP pool.
Match-VIP
The match-vip feature allows the FortiGate unit to log virtual IP traffic that gets implicitly
dropped. This feature eliminates the need to create two policies for virtual IPs; one that allows
the virtual IP, and the other to get proper log entry for DROP rules.
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For example, you have a virtual IP security policy and enabled the match-vip feature; the virtual
IP traffic that is not matched by the policy is now caught.
The match-vip feature is available only in the CLI. By default, the feature is disabled.
Services and TCP ports
There are a number of different services and protocols in use on the Internet. The most
commonly known is HTTP which is used by web servers to transmit requests and responses for
unencrypted web pages. These services are set up to listen for requests on a numbered port.
These services and protocols can use any port from 1 to 65,535. To keep things simple for
everyone a large number of the more commonly used services started using a standardized list
of ports. For instance, though it is not required, by default, most web servers listen for HTTP
requests on port 80 and by default, web browsers will send HTTP traffic to port 80. If you wish
to use another port such as 8080 you would put :8080 at the end of the URL to indicate that
you want the browser to use 8080 instead of the default port.
Example:
Default URL for HTTP traffic when the web server is listening on the standard HTTP port:
http://fortinet.com
URL to the same address when the web server is listening for HTTP traffic on port 8080
http://fortinet.com:8080
Services represent typical traffic types and application packets that pass through the FortiGate
unit. Firewall services define one or more protocols and port numbers associated with each
service. Security policies use service definitions to match session types. You can organize
related services into service groups to simplify your security policy list.
Many well-known traffic types have been predefined on the FortiGate unit. If there is a service
that does not appear on the list you can create a service or edit an existing one. You need to
know the ports, IP addresses or protocols of that particular service or application uses, to
create a service.
Best Practices
While you can edit a predefined service it is best to leave those ones alone and create a new
service and name it something similar such as the same service name with a descriptive
identifier appended.
Based on the previous example, instead of the name HTTP you could name the service
HTTP8080 or use the application that is using that port, HTTP-Application.
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Categories
In order to make sorting through the services easier there is a field to categorize the services.
The services can be sorted into the following groups:
Uncategorized
General
Web Access
File Access
Email
Network Services
Authentication
Remote Access
Tunnelling
VoIP, Messaging and Other Applications
Web Proxy
To create a new category, use the downward pointing arrow next to Create New in the Services
window and choose Category. All that will be required is a name for the new category. A
comments describing the new category is optional.
Protocol Types
One of the fundamental aspects of a service is the type of protocol that use used to define it.
When a service is defined one of the following categories of protocol needs to be determined:
TCP/UDP/SCTP
ICMP
ICMP6
IP
Depending on which of these protocol categories is choose another set of specifications will
can also be defined.
TCP/UDP/SCTP
This is the most commonly used service protocol category. Once this category has been
selected the other available options to choose are an address, either IP or FQDN, and the
protocol and port number.
The protocol will be TCP, UDP or SCTP.
ICMP or ICMP6
When ICMP or ICMP6 is chosen the available options are the ICMP Type and its code.
IP
When IP is the chosen protocol type the addition option is the Protocol Number.
TCP
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is one of the core or fundamental protocols of the Internet.
It is part of the Transport Layer of the OSI Model. It is designed to provide reliable delivery of
data from a program on one device on the network or Internet to another program on another
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device on the network or Internet. TCP achieves its reliability because it is a connection based
protocol. TCP is stream-oriented. It transports streams of data reliably and in order.
TCP establishes a prior connection link between the hosts before sending data. This is often
referred to as the handshake. Once the link is established the protocol uses checks to verify
that the data transmitted. If an error check fails the data is retransmitted. This makes sure that
the data is getting to the destination error free and in the correct order so that it can be put back
together into a form that is identical to the way they were sent.
TCP is configured more for reliability than for speed and because of this TCP will likely be
slower than a connectionless protocol such as UDP. This is why TCP is generally not used for
real time applications such as voice communication or online gaming.
Some of the applications that use TCP are:
World Wide Web (HTTP and HTTPS)
Email (SMTP, POP3, IMAP4)
Remote administration (RDP)
File transfer (FTP)
UDP
User Datagram Protocol (UDP) like TCP is one of the core protocols of the Internet and part of
the Transport Layer of the OSI Model. UDP is designed more for speed than reliability and is
generally used for different applications than TCP. UDP sends messages, referred to as
datagrams across the network or Internet to other hosts without establishing a prior
communication link. In other words, there is no handshake.
UDP is an unreliable service as the datagrams can arrive out of order, duplicated or go missing
without any mechanism to verify them. UDP works on the assumption that any error checking is
done by the application or is not necessary for the function of the application. This way it avoids
the overhead that is required to verify the integrity of the data.
This lack of overhead improves the speed of the data transfer and is why UDP is often used by
applications that are time sensitive in nature. UDP's stateless nature is also great for
applications that answer a large number of small queries from a large number of clients.
Common uses for UDP are:
Domain Name Resolution (DNS)
Time (NTP)
Streaming media (RTSP, RTP and RTCP)
Telephone of the Internet (VoIP)
File Transfer (TFTP)
Logging (SNMP)
Online games (GTP and OGP)
SCTP
Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is part of the Transport Layer of the OSI Model
just like TCP and UDP and provides some of the features of both of those protocols. It is
message or datagram orientated like UDP but it also ensures reliable sequential transport of
data with congestion control like TCP.
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SCTP provides the following services:
Acknowledged error-free non-duplicated transfer of user data
Data fragmentation to conform to discovered path MTU size
Sequenced delivery of user messages within multiple streams, with an option for
order-of-arrival delivery of individual user messages
Optional bundling of multiple user messages into a single SCTP packet
Network-level fault tolerance through supporting of multi-homing at either or both ends of an
association
Congestion avoidance behavior and resistance to flooding and masquerade attacks
SCTP uses multi-streaming to transport its messages which means that there can be several
independent streams of messages traveling in parallel between the points of the transmission.
The data is sent out in larger chunks of data than is used by TCP just like UDP but the
messages include a sequence number within each message in the same way that TCP does so
that the data can be reassembled at the other end of the transmission in the correct sequence
without the data having to arrive in the correct sequence.
SCTP is effective as the transport protocol for applications that require monitoring and
session-loss detection. For such applications, the SCTP path and session failure detection
mechanisms actively monitor the connectivity of the session. SCTP differs from TCP in having
multi-homing capabilities at either or both ends and several streams within a connection,
typically referred to as an association. A TCP stream represents a sequence of bytes; an SCTP
stream represents a sequence of messages.
Some common applications of SCTP include supporting transmission of the following protocols
over IP networks:
SCTP is important in 3G and 4G/LTE networks (for example, HomeNodeB = FemtoCells)
SS7 over IP (for example, for 3G mobile networks)
SCTP is also defined and used for SIP over SCTP and H.248 over SCTP
Transport of Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) signaling messages over IP
networks.
SCTP is a much newer protocol. It was defined by the IETF Signaling Transport (SIGTRAN)
working group in 2000. It was introduced by RFC 3286 and more fully define by RFC 4960.
The FortiGate firewall can apply security policies to SCTP sessions in the same way as TCP and
UDP sessions. You can create security policies that accept or deny SCTP traffic by setting the
service to ALL. FortiOS does not include pre-defined SCTP services. To configure security
policies for traffic with specific SCTP source or destination ports you must create custom
firewall services for SCTP.
FortiGate units route SCTP traffic in the same way as TCP and UDP traffic. You can configure
policy routes specifically for routing SCTP traffic by setting the protocol number to 132. SCTP
policy routes can route SCTP traffic according to the destination port of the traffic if you add a
port range to the policy route.
You can configure a FortiGate unit to perform stateful inspection of different types of SCTP
traffic by creating custom SCTP services and defining the port numbers or port ranges used by
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those services. FortiGate units support SCTP over IPv4. The FortiGate unit performs the
following checks on SCTP packets:
Source and Destination Port and Verification Tag.
Chunk Type, Chunk Flags and Chunk Length
Verify that association exists
Sequence of Chunk Types (INIT, INIT ACK, etc)
Timer checking
Four way handshake checking
Heartbeat mechanism
Protection against INIT/ACK flood DoS attacks, and long-INIT flooding
Protection against association hijacking
FortiOS also supports SCTP sessions over IPSec VPN tunnels, as well as full traffic and event
logging for SCTP sessions.
Specific Addresses in TCP/UDP/SCTP
In the TCP/UDP/SCTP services it is also possible to set the parameter for a specific IP or Fully
Qualified Domain Name address. The IP/FQDN field refers to the destination address of the
traffic, not the source. This means for example, that you can set up a custom service that will
describe in a policy the TCP traffic over port 80 going to the web site example.com, but you
cannot set up a service that describes the TCP traffic over port 80 that is coming from the
computer with the address 192.168.29.59.
Protocol Port Values
The source and destination ports for TCP/UDP/SCTP services are important to get correct. If
they are reversed the service will not work. The destination port(s) are the on ones that refer to
the ports that the computer will be listening on. These are the port numbers that most people
are familiar with when they associate a port number to a protocol. In most cases the source port
will be one that is randomly assigned by the computer that is not being already used by another
service.
Most people associate HTTP with port 80. This means that a web-server will be listening on port
80 for any http requests being sent to the computer. The computer that is sending the request
can use any port that is not already assigned to another service or communication session.
There are 65,535 ports that it can randomly assign, but because the ports from 1 to 1024 are
normally used for listening for incoming communications it is usually not in that range. It is
unless there is a specific instance when you know that a communication will be coming from a
predefined source port it is best practice to set the source port range from 1 to 65,535.
ICMP
The Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) is a protocol layered onto the Internet Protocol
Suite to provide error reporting flow control and first-hop gateway redirection. It is normally
used by the operating systems of networked computers to send connectivity status query,
response and error messages. It is assigned protocol number 1. There is a version of the
protocol for both IPv4 and for IPv6. It is not designed to be absolutely reliable like TCP.
ICMP is not typically used for transporting data or for end-user network applications with the
exception of some diagnostic utilities such as ping and traceroute.
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ICMP messages are sent in several situations, for example:
when a datagram cannot reach its destination,
time exceeded messages
redirect messages
when the gateway does not have the buffering capacity to forward a datagram
when the gateway can direct the host to send traffic on a shorter route.
Some of the specific ICMP message types are:
ICMP_ECHO
ICMP_TIMESTAMP
ICMP_INFO_REQUEST
ICMP_ADDRESS
For ICMP error messages, only those reporting an error for an existing session can pass
through the firewall. The security policy will allow traffic to be routed, forwarded or denied. If
allowed, the ICMP packets will start a new session. Only ICMP error messages of a
corresponding security policy is available will be sent back to the source. Otherwise, the packet
is dropped. That is, only ICMP packets for a corresponding security policy can traverse the
FortiGate unit.
ICMP Types and Codes
ICMP has a number of messages that are identified by the Type field. Some of these types
have assigned Code fields as well. The table below shows the different types of ICMP Types
with their associated codes if there are any.
Table 1: ICMP Types and Codes
Type
Number
Type Name Optional Code(s)
0 Echo Reply
1 Unassigned
2 Unassigned
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3 Destination
Unreachable
0 Net Unreachable
1 Host Unreachable
2 Protocol Unreachable
3 Port Unreachable
4 Fragmentation Needed and Don't Fragment was Set
5 Source Route Failed
6 Destination Network Unknown
7 Destination Host Unknown
8 Source Host Isolated
9 Communication with Destination Network is
Administratively Prohibited
10 Communication with Destination Host is
Administratively Prohibited
11 Destination Network Unreachable for Type of Service
12 Destination Host Unreachable for Type of Service
13 Communication Administratively Prohibited
14 Host Precedence Violation
15 Precedence cutoff in effect
4 Source Quench
5 Redirect 0 Redirect Datagram for the Network (or subnet)
1 Redirect Datagram for the Host
2 Redirect Datagram for the Type of Service and Network
3 Redirect Datagram for the Type of Service and Host
6 Alternate Host Address
7 Unassigned
8 Echo
9 Router Advertisement
10 Router Selection
11 Time Exceeded 0 Time to Live exceeded in Transit
1 Fragment Reassembly Time Exceeded
12 Parameter Problem 0 Pointer indicates the error
1 Missing a Required Option
2 Bad Length
Table 1: ICMP Types and Codes (continued)
Type
Number
Type Name Optional Code(s)
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ICMPv6
Internet Control Message Protocol version 6 (ICMPv6) is the new implementation of the Internet
Control Message Protocol (ICMP) that is part of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). The ICMPv6
protocol is defined in RFC 4443.
13 Timestamp
14 Timestand Reply
15 Information Request
16 Information Reply
17 Address Mask Request
18 Address Mask Reply
19 REserved (for Security)
20 - 29 Reserved (for
Robustness
Experiment)
30 Traceroute
31 Datagram Conversion
Error
32 Mobile Host Redirect
33 IPv6 Where-Are-You
34 IPv6 I-Am-Here
35 Mobile Registration
36 Mobile Registration
Reply
37 Domain Name Request
38 Domain Name Reply
39 SKIP
40 Photuris
41 - 255 Reserved
Table 1: ICMP Types and Codes (continued)
Type
Number
Type Name Optional Code(s)
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ICMPv6 is a multipurpose protocol. It performs such things as:
error reporting in packet processing
diagnostic functions
Neighbor Discovery process
IPv6 multicast membership reporting
It also designed as a framework to use extensions for use with future implementations and
changes.
Examples of extensions that have already been written for ICMPv6:
Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) - a node discovery protocol in IPv6 which replaces and
enhances functions of ARP.
Secure Neighbor Discovery Protocol (SEND) - an extension of NDP with extra security.
Multicast Router Discovery (MRD) - allows discovery of multicast routers.
ICMPv6 messages use IPv6 packets for transportation and can include IPv6 extension headers.
ICMPv6 includes some of the functionality that in IPv4 was distributed among protocols such as
ICMPv4, ARP (Address Resolution Protocol), and IGMP (Internet Group Membership Protocol
version 3).
ICMPv6 has simplified the communication process by eliminating obsolete messages.
ICMPv6 messages are subdivided into two classes: error messages and information messages.
Error Messages are divided into four categories:
1. Destination Unreachable
2. Time Exceeded
3. Packet Too Big
4. Parameter Problems
Information messages are divided into three groups:
1. Diagnostic messages
2. Neighbor Discovery messages
3. Messages for the management of multicast groups.
ICMPv6 Types and Codes
ICMPv6 has a number of messages that are identified by the Type field. Some of these types
have assigned Code fields as well. The table below shows the different types of ICMP Types
with their associated codes if there are any.
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Type codes 0 127 are error messages and type codes 128 255 are for information
messages.
Table 2: ICMPv6 Types and Codes
Type
Number
Type Name Code
0 Reserved 0 - no route to destination
1 - communication with destination administratively
prohibited
2 - beyond scope of source address
3 - address unreachable
4 - port unreachable
5 - source address failed ingress/egress policy
6 - reject route to destination
7 - Error in Source Routing Header
1 Destination
Unreachable
2 Packet Too Big
3 Time Exceeded 0 - hop limit exceeded in transit
1 - fragment reassembly time exceeded
4 Parameter Problem 0 - erroneous header field encountered
1 - unrecognized Next Header type encountered
2 - unrecognized IPv6 option encountered
100 Private Experimentation
101 Private Experimentation
102 - 126 Unassigned
127 Reserved for expansion
if ICMPv6 error
messages
128 Echo Request
129 Echo Replay
130 Multicast Listener Query
131 Multicast Listener
Report
132 Multicast Listener Done
133 Router Solicitation
134 Router Advertisement
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135 Neighbor Solicitation
136 Neighbor Advertisement
137 Redirect Message
138 Router Renumbering 0 - Router Renumbering Command
1 - Router Renumbering Result
255 - Sequence Number Reset
139 ICMP Node Information
Query
0 - The Data field contains an IPv6 address which is the
Subject of this Query.
1 - The Data field contains a name which is the Subject
of this Query, or is empty, as in the case of a NOOP.
2 - The Data field contains an IPv4 address which is the
Subject of this Query.
140
ICMP Node Information Response
0 - A successful reply. The Reply Data field may or may
not be empty.
1 - The Responder refuses to supply the answer. The
Reply Data field will be empty.
2 - The Qtype of the Query is unknown to the
Responder. The Reply Data field will be empty.
140 ICMP Node
Information Response
0 - A successful reply. The Reply Data field may or may
not be empty.
1 - The Responder refuses to supply the answer. The
Reply Data field will be empty.
2 - The Qtype of the Query is unknown to the
Responder. The Reply Data field will be empty.
141 Inverse Neighbor
Discovery Solicitation
Message
142 Inverse Neighbor
Discovery
Advertisement Message
143 Version 2 Multicast
Listener Report
144 Home Agent Address
Discovery Request
Message
Table 2: ICMPv6 Types and Codes (continued)
Type
Number
Type Name Code
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145 Home Agent Address
Discovery Reply
Message
146 Mobile Prefix
Solicitation
147 Mobile Prefix
Advertisement
148 Certification Path
Solicitation Message
149 Certification Path
Advertisement Message
150 ICMP messages utilized
by experimental
mobility protocols such
as Seamoby
151 Multicast Router
Advertisement
152 Multicast Router
Solicitation
153 Multicast Router
Termination
154 FMIPv6 Messages
155 RPL Control Message
156 ILNPv6 Locator Update
Message
157 Duplicate Address
Request
158 Duplicate Address
Confirmation
159 199 Unassigned
200 Private experimentation
201 Private experimentation
255 Reserved for expansion
of ICMPv6 informational
messages
Table 2: ICMPv6 Types and Codes (continued)
Type
Number
Type Name Code
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IP
Internet Protocol (IP) is the primary part of the Network Layer of the OSI Model that is
responsible for routing traffic across network boundaries. It is the protocol that is responsible
for addressing. IPv4 is probable the version that most people are familiar with and it has been
around since 1974. IPv6 is its current successor and due to a shortage of available IPv4
addresses compared to the explosive increase in the number of devices that use IP addresses,
IPv6 is rapidly increasing in use.
When IP is chosen as the protocol type the available option to further specify the protocol is the
protocol number. This is used to narrow down which protocol within the Internet Protocol Suite
and provide a more granular control.
Protocol Number
IP is responsible for more than the address that it is most commonly associated with and there
are a number of associated protocols that make up the Network Layer. While there are not 256
of them, the field that identifies them is a numeric value between 0 and 256.
In the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) [RFC791] there is a field called Protocol to identify the
next level protocol. This is an 8 bit field. In Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) [RFC2460], this field
is called the Next Header field.
Table 3: Protocol Numbers
# Protocol Protocol's Full Name
0 HOPOPT IPv6 Hop-by-Hop Option
1 ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
2 IGMP Internet Group Management
3 GGP Gateway-to-Gateway
4 IPv4 IPv4 encapsulation Protocol
5 ST Stream
6 TCP Transmission Control Protocol
7 CBT CBT
8 EGP Exterior Gateway Protocol
9 IGP Any private interior gateway (used by Cisco for their IGRP)
10 BBN-RCC-MON BBN RCC Monitoring
11 NVP-II Network Voice Protocol
12 PUP PUP
13 ARGUS ARGUS
14 EMCON EMCON
15 XNET Cross Net Debugger
16 CHAOS Chaos
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17 UDP User Datagram Protocol
18 MUX Multiplexing
19 DCN-MEAS DCN Measurement Subsystems
20 HMP Host Monitoring
21 PRM Packet Radio Measurement
22 XNS-IDP XEROX NS IDP
23 TRUNK-1 Trunk-1
24 TRUNK-2 Trunk-2
25 LEAF-1 Leaf-1
26 LEAF-2 Leaf-2
27 RDP Reliable Data Protocol
28 IRTP Internet Reliable Transaction
29 ISO-TP4 ISO Transport Protocol Class 4
30 NETBLT Bulk Data Transfer Protocol
31 MFE-NSP MFE Network Services Protocol
32 MERIT-INP MERIT Internodal Protocol
33 DCCP Datagram Congestion Control Protocol
34 3PC Third Party Connect Protocol
35 IDPR Inter-Domain Policy Routing Protocol
36 XTP XTP
37 DDP Datagram Delivery Protocol
38 IDPR-CMTP IDPR Control Message Transport Proto
39 TP++ TP++ Transport Protocol
40 IL IL Transport Protocol
41 IPv6 IPv6 encapsulation
42 IPv6 SDRPSource Demand Routing Protocol
43 IPv6-Route Routing Header for IPv6
44 IPv6-Frag Fragment Header for IPv6
45 IDRP Inter-Domain Routing Protocol
Table 3: Protocol Numbers
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46 RSVP Reservation Protocol
47 GRE General Routing Encapsulation
48 DSR Dynamic Source Routing Protocol
49 BNA BNA
50 ESP Encap Security Payload
51 AH Authentication Header
52 I-NLSP Integrated Net Layer Security TUBA
53 SWIPE IP with Encryption
54 NARP NBMA Address Resolution Protocol
55 MOBILE IP Mobility
56 TLSP Transport Layer Security Protocol using Kryptonet key
management
57 SKIP SKIP
58 IPv6-ICMP ICMP for IPv6
59 IPv6-NoNxt No Next Header for IPv6
60 IPv6-Opts Destination Options for IPv6
61 any host internal protocol
62 CFTP CFTP
63 any local network
64 SAT-EXPAK SATNET and Backroom EXPAK
65 KRYPTOLAN Kryptolan
66 RVD MIT Remote Virtual Disk Protocol
67 IPPC Internet Pluribus Packet Core
68 any distributed file system
69 SAT-MON SATNET Monitoring
70 VISA VISA Protocol
71 IPCV Internet Packet Core Utility
72 CPNX Computer Protocol Network Executive
73 CPHB Computer Protocol Heart Beat
Table 3: Protocol Numbers
# Protocol Protocol's Full Name
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74 WSN Wang Span Network
75 PVP Packet Video Protocol
76 BR-SAT-MON Backroom SATNET Monitoring
77 SUN-ND SUN ND PROTOCOL-Temporary
78 WB-MON WIDEBAND Monitoring
79 WB-EXPAK WIDEBAND EXPAK
80 ISO-IP ISO Internet Protocol
81 VMTP VMTP
82 SECURE-VMTP SECURE-VMTP
83 VINES VINES
84 TTP TTP
84 IPTM Protocol Internet Protocol Traffic
85 NSFNET-IGP NSFNET-IGP
86 DGP Dissimilar Gateway Protocol
87 TCF TCF
88 EIGRP EIGRP
89 OSPFIGP OSPFIGP
90 Sprite-RPC Sprite RPC Protocol
91 LARP Locus Address Resolution Protocol
92 MTP Multicast Transport Protocol
93 AX.25 AX.25 Frames
94 IPIP IP-within-IP Encapsulation Protocol
95 MICP Mobile Internetworking Control Pro.
96 SCC-SP Semaphore Communications Sec. Pro.
97 ETHERIP Ethernet-within-IP Encapsulation
98 ENCAP Encapsulation Header
99 any private encryption scheme
100 GMTP GMTP
101 IFMP Ipsilon Flow Management Protocol
Table 3: Protocol Numbers
# Protocol Protocol's Full Name
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102 PNNI PNNI over IP
103 PIM Protocol Independent Multicast
104 ARIS ARIS
105 SCPS SCPS
106 QNX QNX
107 A/N Active Networks
108 IPComp IP Payload Compression Protocol
109 SNP Sitara Networks Protocol
110 Compaq-Peer Compaq Peer Protocol
111 IPX-in-IP IPX in IP
112 VRRP Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
113 PGM PGM Reliable Transport Protocol
114 any 0-hop protocol
115 L2TP Layer Two Tunneling Protocol
116 DDX D-II Data Exchange (DDX)
117 IATP Interactive Agent Transfer Protocol
118 STP Schedule Transfer Protocol
119 SRP SpectraLink Radio Protocol
120 UTI UTI
121 SMP Simple Message Protocol
122 SM SM
123 PTP Performance Transparency Protocol
124 ISIS over IPv4
125 FIRE
126 CRTP Combat Radio Transport Protocol
127 CRUDP Combat Radio User Datagram
128 SSCOPMCE
129 IPLT
130 SPS Secure Packet Shield
Table 3: Protocol Numbers
# Protocol Protocol's Full Name
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Further information can be found by researching RFC 5237.
Service Groups
Just like some of the other firewall components, services can also be bundled into groups for
ease of administration.
Creating a ServiceGroup
1. Go to Policy & Objects > Objects > Services.
2. Select the down arrow next to Create New, select Service Group.
3. Input a Group Name for the list of services.
4. Input any additional information in the Comments field.
5. Choose a Type; either Firewall or Explicit Proxy.
6. Next to Members there is a dropdown menu that can be used to select from the available
Services. It is possible to select more than 1 entry. Just select the green plus sign next to the
field to add an additional entry. Select the X icon in the field to remove an entry.
7. Press OK.
131 PIPE Private IP Encapsulation within IP
132 SCTP Stream Control Transmission Protocol
133 FC Fibre Channel
134 RSVP-E2E-IGNORE
135 Mobility Header
136 UDPLite
137 MPLS-in-IP
138 manet
139 HIP
140 Shim6
141 WESP
142 ROHC
143
252
Unassigned Unassigned
253 Use for experimentation and testing
254 Use for experimentation and testing
255 Reserved
Table 3: Protocol Numbers
# Protocol Protocol's Full Name
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Example Scenario: Using FortiGate services to support Audio/Visual
Conferencing
To demonstrate how services and service groups are used we show the setup of a firewall that
will need to support the connectivity of a video conferencing unit. The FortiGate does not
manipulate or change the content of the traffic but it does allow for the traffic to pass through
the device. In this case it allow for only the needed traffic to pass through the device so as to
allow the functionality of Audio Visual Conference call but not to allow other traffic through.
The theoretical location for this scenario is a hospital that hosts conferences and lectures from
doctors from all over the world, sometimes from multiple locations, using video conferencing
technology such as a Polycom Video Conference system. There is a special room set up with
dedicated Ethernet connectivity to the Internet. A hospital has a lot of sensitive information
going over its network so the setup has to be secure to prevent any chance of penetration.
The approach is fairly simple. The conference room has a dedicated port on the FortiGate (port
#7) and its own LAN. We will assume that the interface has already been configured properly.
Video conference traffic can come from the Internet to the Polycom in that room and traffic can
get out to the Internet, but traffic going to other areas of the hospital network have to go through
the FortiGate and traffic going from the Video Conference LAN is thoroughly filtered.
To give an idea of how extensive this can be, we will use an extreme case and include just about
all of the services that could be commonly used in one of these setups. The protocols listed
here may differ from other setups. It will depend on which features are being used and which
equipment is within the network. Always check the documentation that comes with the set up
before opening ports into your network.
VIP
In this particular case there is an IP address set aside for the conferencing system so a separate
VIP is not needed for every port. One Virtual IP will be created for the system and then only the
approved of protocols will be allows through the firewall.
Name Vid-Conf_Room216
External Interface wan1
External IP Address/Range 256.87.212.51 256.87.212.51
Mapped IP Address/Range 192.168.7.25 192.168.7.25
Port Forwarding not selected
The feature, and the transmitting of data for the purpose of, Tele-conferencing or Audio/Visual
Conferencing is covered by a number of standards:
The IETF standard known as the Binary Floor Control Protocol (BFCP).
RFC 4582, for SIP-based video devices
The ITU standard H.239 (for H.323-based video devices)
While these standards have been set up by various authoritative bodies and can take place on
different layers of the OSI model, they share common requirements that are addressed by the
FortiGate firewalls ability to manage the traffic and the protocols involved. This means that the
same ability that make the device RFC 4582 compliant makes it compliant with H.239 as well.
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Creating an address for the subnet
In the same way that the VIP was created to identify and direct incoming traffic an address
should be created to identify the addresses of computer that will be in the Conference room.
This included computers on the LAN as well as the Teleconferencing equipment.
Go to Firewall Objects -> Address -> Addresses
Create New
Fill out the fields with the following information:
Category Address
Name Port7_subnet
Type Subnet
Subnet/IP Range 192.168.7.0/255.255.255.0
Interface port7
Show in address list checked
Configuring the services
Services already created:
The following are standard services that have already been created by default:
HTTP TCP 80
SNMP TCP 161-162/UDP 161-162
LDAP TCP 389
HTTPS TCP 443
SYSLOG UDP 514
Existing Services to be edited:
There are a few services that have already been created for you, but they need to be expanded
to accommodate the list of protocols listed for this scenario.
The default h323 contains:
TCP 1503
UDP 1719
TCP 1720
We need to add:
TCP1719
The default SIP contains:
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UDP 5060
We need to add:
TCP 5060
H323 service
1. Go to Firewall Objects -> Service -> Services
2. Scroll down to the section: VoIP, Messaging & Other Applications
3. Select H323
4. Select Edit
5. In the Protocol section add the additional protocol:
6. Select OK to save
SIP service
1. Go to Firewall Objects -> Service -> Services
2. Scroll down to the section: VoIP, Messaging & Other Applications
3. Select SIP
4. Select Edit
5. In the Protocol section add the additional protocol:
6. Select OK to save
Custom Services that need to be created:
There are a number of possible services that may need to be added from scratch rather than
editing existing ones. While it is possible to create a single custom service that contains all of
the open ports needed, it make more sense to make this modular in case only a small subset of
the service needs to be added to another policy.
Polycom API
1. Go to Firewall Objects -> Service -> Services
2. Create New
3. Fill in the fields of the new service with the following information:
Protocol Type TCP
Destination port /Low 1719
Protocol Type TCP
Destination port / Low: 5060
Name Polycom API
Service Type Firewall
Category VoIP, Messaging & Other
Protocol Type TCP/UDP/SCTP
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4. Select OK
Polycom Endpoints
1. Go to Firewall Objects -> Service -> Services
2. Create New
3. Fill in the fields of the new service with the following information:
4. Select OK
Other Services to add in the same way:
Name of Service Category Protocol & Port #
LDAP secure communications Authentication TCP 636
Win 2000 ILS Registration Network Services TCP 1002
Gatekeeper discovery VoIP, Messaging & Other
Applications
TCP 1718
Audio Call Control VoIP, Messaging & Other
Applications
TCP 1731
Polycom proprietary Global
directory data
VoIP, Messaging & Other
Applications
TCP 3601
Polycom People+Content VoIP, Messaging & Other
Applications
TCP 5001
HTTP Server Push Web Access TCP 8080
Protocol TCP/UDP/SCTP
Protocol TCP
Destination Port - Low: 24
Destination Port - High: <leave blank>
Name Polycom Endpoints
Service Type Firewall
Category VoIP, Messaging & Other
Protocol Type TCP/UDP/SCTP
Protocol TCP
Destination - Low: 3230
Destination - High: 3253
Table 4:
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Creating the Service Group
1. Go to Frewall Cbecls ` Servce ` Groups
2. Create New
3. Build the Service group by filing in the fields with the following information
Creating the IPS Security Profile
This is by no means the only way to set up this IPS filter, but it is the way that the fictional
System Administrator wants it set up. Yours may be different.
1. Go to Security Profiles -> Intrusion Protection -> IPS Sensors.
2. Create a new sensor
3. Select OK
4. In the newly created sensor, create a new IPS filter.
Group Name A-V_Conference
Type Firewall
Members
(click in the drop
down menu to add
the following
services)
HTTP
SNMP
LDAP
HTTPS
SYSLOG
Polycom API
Polycom Endpoints
LDAP secure communications
Win 2000 ILS Registration
Gatekeeper discovery
Audio Call Control
Polycom proprietary Global directory data
Polycom People+Content
HTTP Server Push
Name A-V_Conference-incoming
Sensor Type Filter Based
Filter Options Advanced
Severity Critical
High
Medium
Low
Target Server
OS Windows
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Based on these filters there should be somewhere in the neighborhood of 750 signatures that
the FortiGate will run traffic against in the IPS engine.
Policies
Incoming Policy
A policy has to be made to allow the traffic to come in from the Internet to connect to the
Tele-conferencing server equipment.
Policy Type Firewall
Policy Subtype Address
Incoming Interface wan1
Source Address all
Outgoing Interface port7
Destination Address Vid-Conf_Room216
Schedule always
Service A-V_Conference
Action ACCEPT
Enable NAT <not enabled>
Logging Options Logging is a good idea but how much will depend on storage
capabilities.
Security Profiles Turn on IPS and choose A-V_Conference-incoming
Traffic Shaping,
Web cache,
WAN Optimization,
Disclaimer:
The use of these features will depend on your network environment and
should be decided by the network architect, as the decision will largely
be based on network bandwidth, usage and importance of Video
conferencing compared to other traffic.
1. Go to Policy -> Policy -> Policy.
2. Create New
3. Fill out the fields with the following information:
Application IIS
other
Protocol
Use the [Show
more...] option
HTTP
LDAP
SIP
SSL
H323
Packet logging enabled
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4. Select OK.
The policy will then need to be put in the correct position in the sequence of the policies.
Because it is a rather focused policy it should be acceptable to place it near the top of the
policy order sequence.
Outgoing Policy
A policy has to be made to allow the traffic to leave from the subnet in the conference room to
the Internet, not only for the traffic for the Tele-conferencing equipment but for normal traffic of
users on the Internet such as web research and email. The traffic is outgoing so there is less of
a need for an Intrusion Protection System filter, but check with the network architect in case
there is a need for using one of the other security profiles.
1. Go to Policy -> Policy -> Policy.
2. Create New
3. Fill out the fields with the following information:
4. Select OK.
The policy will then need to be put in the correct position in the sequence of the policies.
Policy Type Firewall
Policy Subtype Address
Incoming Interface port7
Source Address Port7_subnet
Outgoing Interface wan1
Destination Address all
Schedule always
Service any
Action ACCEPT
Enable NAT enabled
Use Destination Interface Address
Logging Options Logging is a good idea but how much will depend on storage
capabilities.
Security Profiles <see above>
Traffic Shaping,
Web cache,
WAN Optimization,
Disclaimer:
The use of these features will depend on your network environment and
should be decided by the network architect, as the decision will largely
be based on network bandwidth, usage and importance of Video
conferencing compared to other traffic.
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Firewall schedules
Firewall schedules control when policies are in effect. When you add a security policy on a
FortiGate unit you need to set a schedule to determine the time frame in which that the policy
will be functioning. While it is not set by default, the normal schedule would be always. This
would mean that the policy that has been created is always function and always policing the
traffic going through the FortiGate.
The time component of the schedule is based on a 24 hour clock notation or military time as
some people would say.
There are two types of schedules: One-time schedules and recurring schedules.
One-Time schedules are in effect only once for the period of time specified in the schedule.
This can be useful for testing to limit how long a policy will be in effect in case it is not removed,
or it can be used for isolated events such as a conference where you will only need a temporary
infrastructure change for a few days.
The time frame for a One-time schedule is configured by using a start time which includes, Year
| Month | Day | Hour | Minute and a Stop time which includes the same variables. So while the
frequency of the schedule is only once it can last anywhere from 1 minute to multiple years.
Recurring schedules are in effect repeatedly at specified times of specified days of the week.
The Recurring schedule is based on a repeating cycle of the days of the week as opposed to
every x days or days of the month. This means that you can configure the schedule to be in
effect on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday but not every 2 days or on odd numbered days of
the month.
If a recurring schedule has a stop time that is earlier than the start time, the schedule will take
effect at the start time but end at the stop time on the next day. You can use this technique to
create recurring schedules that run from one day to the next.
Example
You want to schedule the use of Skype to only between noon (12:00) and 1 p.m. (13:00).
You could create a schedule that allows Skype traffic:
Starting at Hour:12 and Minute: 00
Stopping at Hour:13 and Minute: 00
Set for days of the week: Sunday | Monday |Tuesday |Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
Saturday
Or you could have a schedule that blocks Skype traffic:
Starting at Hour:13 and Minute: 00 (and goes to the next day)
Stopping at Hour:12 and Minute: 00
Set for days of the week: Sunday | Monday |Tuesday |Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
Saturday
Either way is effective for the task but other factors may make one method work better than
another in certain situations of it could be just a preference in approach.
Schedule Groups
You can organize multiple firewall schedules into a schedule group to simplify your security
policy list. The schedule parameter in the policy configuration does not allow for the entering of
multiple schedules into a single policy so if you have a combination of time frames that you
want to schedule the policy for then the best approach, rather than making multiple policies is
to use a schedule group.
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Example
Your Internet policy allows employees to visit Social Media sites from company computers but
not during what is considered working hours. The offices are open a few hours before working
hours and the doors are not locked until a few hours after official closing so work hours are from
9 to 5 with a lunch break from Noon to 1:00 p.m.
Your approach is to block the traffic between 9 and noon and between 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.
This means you will need two schedules for a single policy and the schedule group handles this
for you.
Schedule groups can contain both recurring and one-time schedules. Schedule groups cannot
contain other schedule groups.
Schedule Expiration
The schedule in a security policy enables certain aspects of network traffic to occur for a
specific length of time. What it does not do however, is police that time. That is, the policy is
active for a given time frame, and as long as the session is open, traffic can continue to flow.
For example, in an office environment, Skype use is allowed between noon and 1pm. During
that hour, any Skype traffic continues. As long as that session is open, after the 1pm end time,
the Skype conversations can continue, yet new sessions will be blocked. Ideally, the Skype
session should close at 1pm.
Using a CLI command you can set the schedule to terminate all sessions when the end time of
the schedule is reached. Within the config firewall command enter the command:
set schedule-timeout enable
By default, this is set to disable.
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Security policies
One of the foundations upon which a firewall works is the use of policies. These are what bring
the other firewall objects and components together into an elegant mechanism for the
governing of the traffic going through the network.
This Chapter includes information on the following topics:
Firewall policies
Security profiles
SSL/SSH Inspection
Identity Based Policies
Device Identity Policies
VPN Policies
Interface Policies
One-Arm IDS
Local-In Policies
Security Policy 0
Deny Policies
Accept Policies
IPv6 Policies
Fixed Port
Endpoint Security
Traffic Logging
Quality of Service
Policy Monitor
Firewall policies
The firewall policy is the axis around which most of the other features of the FortiGate firewall
revolve. A large portion of the settings in the firewall at some point will end up relating to or
being associated with the firewall policies and the traffic that they govern. Any traffic going
through a FortiGate unit has to be associated with a policy. These policies are essentially
discrete compartmentalized sets of instructions that control the traffic flow going through the
firewall. These instructions control where the traffic goes, how its processed, if its processed
and even whether or not its allowed to pass through the FortiGate.
When the firewall receives a connection packet, it analyzes the packets source address,
destination address, and service (by port number). It also registers the incoming interface, the
outgoing interface it will need to use and the time of day. Using this information the FortiGate
firewall attempts to locate a security policy that matches the packet. If it finds a policy that
matches the parameters it then looks at the action for that policy. If it is ACCEPT the traffic is
allowed to proceed to the next step. If the Action is DENY or a match cannot be found the traffic
is not allowed to proceed.
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The 2 basic actions at the initial connection are either ACCEPT or DENY:
If the Action is ACCEPT, the policy action permits communication sessions. There may be
other packet processing instructions, such as requiring authentication to use the policy.
While you may not see it in the configuration there is the implied subset of the ACCEPT
Action that include VPN policies, whether they be an IPSec VPN or SSL.
If the Action is DENY, the policy action blocks communication sessions, and you can
optionally log the denied traffic. If no security policy matches the traffic, the packets are
dropped. A DENY security policy is needed when it is required to log the denied traffic, also
called violation traffic.
The policy may contain a number of instructions for the FortiGate firewall in addition to the
ACCEPT or DENY actions, some of which are optional. Instructions on how to process the
traffic can also include such things as:
Logging Traffic
Authentication
Network Address Translation or Port Address Translation
Use Virtual IPs or IP Pools
Caching
Whether to use address or Identity based rules
Whether to treat as regular traffic or VPN traffic
What certificates to use
Security profiles to apply
Proxy Options
Traffic Shaping
Firewall policy parameters
As mentioned before, for traffic to flow through the FortiGate firewall there must be a policy that
matches its parameters:
Incoming Interface
This is the interface or interfaces that the traffic is first connection to the FortiGate unit by. The
exception being traffic that the FortiGate generates itself. This is not limited to the physical
Ethernet ports found on the device. The incoming interface can also be a logical or virtual
interface such as a VPN tunnel, a Virtual WAN link or a wireless interface.
Outgoing Interface
After the firewall has processed the traffic it needs to leave a port to get to its destination and
this will be the interface or interfaces that the traffic leaves by. This interface, like the Incoming
Interface is not limited to only physical interfaces.
Source Address
The addresses that a policy can receive traffic from can be wide open or tightly controlled.
For a public webserver that the world at large should be able to access, the best choice will
be all. If the destination is a private webserver that only the branch offices of a company
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should be able to access or a list of internal computers that are the only ones allowed to
access an external resource then a group of preconfigured addresses is the better strategy.
Additional parameters under the Source Address, though they are not manditory are:
Source User(s)
This parameter is based on a user identity that can be from a number of authentication
authorities. It will be an account or group that has been set up in advance that can be
sellected from the dropdown menu. The exception to this is the feature that allows the
importing of LDAP Users. When the feature is used, a small wizard window will appear to
guide the user through the setup. The caveat is that the LDAP server object in the User
and Device > Authentication > LDAP Servers section has to be already configured to
allow the use of this import feature.
Source Device Type
This parameter is for narrowing down the traffic sending devices to those that the
FortiGate is familiar with. Again the the contents of this parameter need to be a
preconfigured object and these are defined at User and Device > Device > Device
Definitions. This parameter can limit the devices that can connect to this policy to those
specific MAC addresses that are already known by the FortiGate and are approved for
the policy.
Destination Address
In the same way that the source address may need to be limited, the destination address
can be used as a traffic filter. When the traffic is destined for internal resources the specific
address of the resourece can be defined to better protect the other resources on the
network. One of the specialized destination address options is to use a Virtual IP address.
The destination address doesnt need to be interal you can define policies that are only for
connecting to specific addresses on the Internet.
Schedule
The time frame that is applied to the policy. This can be something as simple as a time range
that the sessions are allowed to start such as between 8:00 am and 5:00 pm. Something
more complex like business hours that include a break for lunch and time of the sessions
initiation may need a schedule group because it will require multiple time ranges to make up
the schedule.
Service
The service or service chosen here respresent the TCP/IP suite port numbers that will most
commonly be used to transport the named protocols or group of protocols. This will be a
little different than Application Control which looks more closely at the packets to determine
the actual protocol used to create them.
Without all six (possibly 8) of these things matching, the traffic will be declined. Each traffic flow
requires a policy and the direction is important as well. Just because packets can go from point
A to point B on port X does not mean that the traffic can flow from point B to point A on port X.
A policy must be configured for each direction.
When designing a policy there is often reference to the traffic flow, but most communication is a
two way connection so trying to determine the direction of the flow can be somewhat
confusing. If traffic is HTTP web traffic the user sends a request to the web site, but most of the
traffic flow will be coming from the web site to the user. Is the traffic flow considered to be from
the user to the web site, the web site to the user or in both directions? For the purposes of
determining the direction for a policy the important factor is the direction of the initiating
communication. The user is sending a request to the web site so this is the initial
communication and the web site is just responding to it so the traffic will be from the users
network to the Internet.
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A case where either side can initiate the communication like between two internal interfaces on
the FortiGate unit would be a more likely situation to require a policy for each direction.
What is not expressly allowed is denied
One of the fundamental ideas that can be found in just about any firewall is the rule than
anything that is not expressly allowed is by default denied. This is the foundation for any
strategy of protecting your network. Right out of the box, once you have your FortiGate device
connected into your network and hooked up with your ISP your network is protected. Nothing is
getting out or in so it is not very convenient, but you dont have to worry that between the time
you hooked it up and the point that you got all of the polices in place that someone could have
gotten in and done something to your resources. The reason that this needs to be kept in mind
when designing policies is because you cannot assume that any traffic will be allowed just
because it makes sense to do so. If you want any kind of traffic to make it past the FortiGate
firewall you need to create a policy that will allow that traffic. To maintain the protection of the
network should also make sure that the any policy you create allows only the traffic you intend
to go only to where you specifically want it to go and when you want it to go there.
Example
You have a web server on your network that is meant to provide a collaborative work
environment web site for your employees and a partner company for a project over the course
of the next 3 months.
It is theoretically possible to allow connections into your network to any device on that network
for any service and at any time. The problem with this is that we might not want just anybody
looking at those resources. Sadly, no matter how much it is wished otherwise, not everybody on
the Internet can be trusted. Which means we now have to be very specific in our instructions as
to what traffic to allow into the network. Each step that we take towards being more specific as
to what we allow means that there is that much more that is not allowed and the level of
protection of a resources is directly proportional to the amount of traffic that is not allowed. If
somebody cant get at it they cant damage or steal it.
Limiting where the traffic is allowed to go to means that other computers on your network
besides the web-server are protected.
Limiting where the traffic is allowed to come from means that, if feasible, you can limit the
systems that can access the web server to just employees or the partner company
computers.
Limiting the services to just web traffic means that a malicious person, even if they were
connection from a computer at the partner organization could only use the features of web
traffic to do anything malicious.
Limiting the policy to the time span of the project would mean that even if the IT department
forgot to remove the policy after the end of the project than no computer from the other
company could be used to do anything malicious through the policy that allowed the traffic.
This is just a very basic example but it shows the underlying principles of how the idea that
anything not expressly allowed is by default denied can be used to effectively protect your
network.
Policy order
Another important factor in how firewall policies work is the concept of precedence of order or if
you prefer a more recognizable term, first come, first served.
It is highly likely that even after only a relatively small number of policies have been created that
there will be some that overlap or are subsets of the parameters that the policies use to
determine which policy should be matched against the incoming traffic. When this happens
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there has to be a method to determine which policy should be applied to the packet. The
method which is used by most firewalls it based on the order of the sequence of the policies.
If all of the policies were placed in a sequential list the process to match up the packet would
start at the top of the list and work its way down. It would compare information about the
packet, specifically these points of information:
1. The interface the packet connected to the FortiGate firewall
2. The source address of the packet, and possibly the sending user and device.
3. The destination address of the packet
4. The interface the packet would need to use to get to the destination address based on the
routing table
5. The port the packet is destined for
6. The time that the packet connected to the FortiGate
As soon as the a policy is reached that matches all of the applicable parameters, the
instructions of that policy are applied and the search for any other matching policies is stopped.
All subsequent policies are disregarded. Only 1 policy is applied to the packet.
If there is no matching policy among the policies that have been configured for traffic the packet
finally drops down to what is always the last policy. It is an implicit policy. One of a few that are
referred to by the term policy0. This policy denies everything.
The implicit policy is made up of the following settings:
Incoming Interface: any
Source Address: any
Outgoing Interface: any
Destination Address: any
Action: DENY
The only setting that is editable in the implicit policy is the logging of violation traffic.
A logical best practice that comes from the knowledge of how this process works is to make
sure that the more specific or specialized a policy is, the closer to the beginning of the
sequence it should be. The more general a policy is the higher the likelihood that it could include
in its range of parameters a more specifically targeted policy. The more specific a policy is, the
higher the probability that there is a requirement for treating that traffic in a specific way.
Example
For security reasons there is no FTP traffic allowed out of a specific subnet so there is a policy
that states that any traffic coming from that subnet is denied if the service is FTP, so the
following policy was created:
Policy #1
Source Interface Internal1
Source Address 192.168.1.0/24
Source User(s) <left at default setting>
Source Device Type <left at default setting>
Outgoing Interface WAN1
Destination Address 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
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Now as these things usually go it turns out that there has to be an exception to the rule. There is
one very secure computer on the subnet that is allowed to use FTP and once the content has
been checked it can them be distributed to the other computer on the subnet. So a second
firewall policy is created.
Policy #2
Source Interface Internal1
Source Address 192.168.1.38/32
Source User(s) <left at default setting>
Source Device Type <left at default setting>
Outgoing Interface WAN1
Destination Address 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
Service FTP
Schedule always
Action Allow
By default, a policy that has just been created will be placed last in the sequence so that it is
less likely to interfere with existing policies before it can be moved to its intended position. If
you look at Policy #2 you will notice that it is essentially the same as Policy #1 exempt for the
Source Address and the Action. You will also notice that the Source Address of the Policy #2 is
a subset of the Source address in policy #1. This means that if nothing further is done, Policy #2
will never see any traffic because the traffic will always be matched by Policy #1 and processed
before it has a chance to reach the second policy in the sequence. For both policies to work as
intended Policy #2 needs to be moved to before Policy #1 in the sequence.
Policy Identification
When looking at the policy listing it can appear as if the policies are identified by the sequence
number in the far left column. The problem is that this number changes as the position of the
policy in the sequence changes. The column that correctly identifies the policy, and the value
sticks with the policy is the "ID" column. This column is not shown by default in the listing but
can be added to the displayed columns by right clicking on the column heading bar and
selecting it from the list of possible columns.
When looking in the configuration file the sequence is based upon the order of the policies as
they are in the file just as they are in the list in the GUI. However, if you need to edit the policy in
the CLI you must use the ID number.
Service FTP
Schedule always
Action deny
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UUID Support
Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) attributes have been added to policies to improve
functionality when working with FortiManager or FortiAnalyser units. If required, the UUID can
be set manually through the CLI.
CLI Syntax:
config firewall {policy/policy6/policy46/policy64}
edit 1
set uuid <example uuid: 8289ef80-f879-51e2-20dd-fa62c5c51f44>
next
end
Security profiles
Where security policies provide the instructions to the FortiGate unit for controlling what traffic
is allowed through the device, the Security profiles provide the screening that filters the content
coming and going on the network. Security profiles enable you to instruct the FortiGate unit
about what to look for in the traffic that you dont want, or want to monitor, as it passes through
the device.
A security profile is a group of options and filters that you can apply to one or more firewall
policies. Security profiles can be used by more than one security policy. You can configure sets
of security profiles for the traffic types handled by a set of security policies that require identical
protection levels and types, rather than repeatedly configuring those same security profile
settings for each individual security policy.
For example, while traffic between trusted and untrusted networks might need strict antivirus
protection, traffic between trusted internal addresses might need moderate antivirus protection.
To provide the different levels of protection, you might configure two separate profiles: one for
traffic between trusted networks, and one for traffic between trusted and untrusted networks.
Security profiles are available for various unwanted traffic and network threats. Each are
configured separately and can be used in different groupings as needed. You configure security
profiles in the Security Profiles menu and applied when creating a security policy by selecting
the security profile type.
There is a separate handbook for the topic of the Security Profiles, but because the Security
Profiles are applied through the Firewall policies it makes sense to have at least a basic idea of
what the security profile do and how they integrate into the FortiGate's firewall policies. The
following is a listing and a brief description of what the security profiles offer by way of
functionality and how they can be configured into the firewall policies.
AntiVirus
Antivirus is used as a catch all term to describe the technology for protection against the
transmission of malicious computer code sometimes referred to as malware. As anyone who
has listened to the media has heard that the Internet can be a dangerous place filled with
malware of various flavours. Currently, the malware that is most common in the Internet, in
descending order, is Trojan horses, viruses, worms, adware, back door exploits, spyware and
other variations. In recent years, not only has the volume of malicious software become greater
than would have been believed when it first appeared but the level of sophistication has risen as
well.
The Antivirus Filter works by inspecting the traffic that is about to be transmitted through the
FortiGate. To increase the efficiency of effort it only inspects the traffic being transmitted via the
protocols that it has been configured to check. Before the data moves across the FortiGate
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firewall from one interface to another it is checked for attributes or signatures that have been
known to be associated with malware. If malware is detected, it is removed.
Web Filtering
Malicious code is not the only thing to be wary of on the Internet. There is also the actual
content. While the content will not damage or steal information from your computer there is still
a number of reasons that would require protection from it.
In a setting where there are children or other sensitive people using the access provided by a
connected computer there is a need to make sure that images or information that is not
appropriate is not inadvertently displayed to them. Even if there is supervision, in the time it
takes to recognize something that is inappropriate and then properly react can expose those we
wish to protect. It is more efficient to make sure that the content cannot reach the screen in the
first place.
In an organizational setting, there is still the expectation that organization will do what it can to
prevent inappropriate content from getting onto the computer screens and thus provoking an
Human Resources incident. There is also the potential loss of productivity that can take place if
people have unfiltered access to the Internet. Some organizations prefer to limit the amount of
distractions available to tempt their workers away from their duties.
The Web filter works primarily by looking at the destination location request for a HTTP(S)
request made by the sending computer. If the URL is on a list that you have configured to list
unwanted sites, the connection will be disallowed. If the site is part of a category of sites that
you have configured to deny connections to the session will also be denied. You can also
configure the content filter to check for specific key strings of data on the actual web site and if
any of those strings of data appear the connection will not be allowed.
Application Control
Application Control is designed to allow you to determine what applications are operating on
your network and to the also filter the use of these applications as required. Application control
is also for outgoing traffic to prevent the use of applications that are against an organizations
policy from crossing the network gateway to other networks. An example of this would be the
use of proxy servers to circumvent the restrictions put in place using the Web Filtering.
Intrusion Protection (IPS)
Intrusion Prevention System is almost self explanatory. In the same way that there is malware
out on the Internet that the network needs to be protected from there are also people out there
that take a more targeted approach to malicious cyber activity. No operating system is perfect
and new vulnerabilities are being discovered all of the time. An intrusion prevention system is
designed to look for activity or behavior that is consistent with attacks against your network.
When attack like behavior is detected it can either be dropped or just monitored depending on
the approach that you would like to take.
As new vulnerabilities are discovered they can be added to the IPS database so that the
protection is current.
Email Filtering
Spam or unsolicited bulk email is said to account for approximately 90% of the email traffic on
the Internet. Sorting through it is both time consuming and frustrating. By putting an email filter
on policies that handle email traffic, the amount of spam that users have to deal with can be
greatly reduced.
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Data Leak Prevention (DLP)
Data Leak Prevention is used to prevent sensitive information from leaving your network. When
people think of security in the cyber-world one of the most common images is that of a hacker
penetrating your network and making off with your sensitive information, but the other way that
you can lose sensitive data is if someone already on the inside of your network sends it out. This
does not have to be an act of industrial espionage. It can just be a case of not knowing the
policies of the organization or a lack of knowledge of security or laws concerning privacy.
For instance, a company may have a policy that they will not reveal anyones Social Security
number, but an employee emails a number of documents to another company that included a
lengthy document that has a Social Security number buried deep within it. There is not
malicious intent but if the information got out there could be repercussions.
If an organization has any information in a digital format that it cannot afford for financial or legal
reasons, to leave its network, it makes sense to have Data Leak Prevention in place as an
additional layer of protection.
VoIP
Voice over IP is essentially the protocols for transmitting voice or other multimedia
communications over Internet Protocol networks such as the Internet. The Security Profiles
VoIP options apply the SIP Application Level Gateway (ALG) to support SIP through the
FortiGate unit. The SIP ALG can also be used to protect networks from SIP-based attacks.
ICAP
Internet Content Adaptation Protocol (ICAP) off loads HTTP traffic to another location for
specialized processing. The purpose of this module when triggered is to send the incoming
HTTP traffic over to a remote server to be processed thus taking some of the strain off of the
resources of the FortiGate unit. The reasons for the specialized process could be anything from
more sophisticated Antivirus to manipulation of the HTTP headers and URLs.
EndPoint Control
EndPoint Control makes sure that certain standards are kept. When a computer on the Internet
becomes connected to the FortiGate unit by VPN that computer is now part of the same
network and there for needs to be subject to the same levels of protection, not only to protect
the computer but the network. In the EndPoint Control section you can set the minimum
standards for thins like AntiVirus software and VPN software.
Proxy Option Components
Any time a security profile that requires the use of a proxy is enabled the Proxy Options field will
be displayed. Certain inspections defined in security profiles require that the traffic be held in
proxy while the inspection is carried out and so the Proxy Options are there to define the
parameters of how the traffic will be processed and to what level the traffic will be processed. In
the same way that there can be multiple security profiles of a single type there can also be a
number of unique Proxy Option profiles so that as the requirements for a policy differ from one
policy to the next you can also configure a different Proxy Option profile for each individual
policy or you can use one profile repeatedly.
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The Proxy Options refer to the handling of the following protocols:
HTTP
SMTP
POP3
IMAP
FTP
NNTP
MAPI
DNS
IM
The configuration for each of these protocols is handled separately.
It should also be noted that these configurations apply to only the Security Profiles Proxy-based
processes and not the Flow-based processes.
The use of different proxy profiles and profile options
Just like other components of the FortiGate, there is the option for different Proxy Option
profiles so that you can be very granular in your control of the workings of the FortiGate. In the
case of the Proxy Option profiles the thing that you will want to focus on is the matching up of
the correct profile to a firewall policy that is using the appropriate protocols. If you are creating a
Proxy Option profile that is designed for policies that control SMTP traffic into your network you
only want to configure the settings that apply to SMTP. You do not need or want to configure the
HTTP components.
Oversized File Log
This setting is for those that would like to log the occurrence of oversized files being processed.
It does not change how they are processed it only enables the FortiGate unit to log that they
were either blocked or allowed through. A common practice is to allow larger files through
without antivirus processing. This allows you to get an idea of how often this happens and
decide on whether or not to alter the settings relating to the treatment of oversized files.
The setting of the threshold for what is considered to be an oversized file is located in the
Oversized File / Email Threshold that is found in some of the protocol options for the Proxy
Options.
Protocol Port Mapping
While each of the protocols listed has a default TCP port that is commonly used, the level of
granularity of control on the FortiGate firewall allows that the port used by the protocols can be
individually modified in each separate Profile. It can also be set to inspect any port with flowing
traffic for that particular protocol. The headers of the packets will indicate which protocol
generated the packet. To optimize the resources of the unit the mapping and inspection of
protocols can be enabled or disabled depending on your requirments.
Comfort Clients
When proxy-based antivirus scanning is enabled, the FortiGate unit buffers files as they are
downloaded. Once the entire file is captured, the FortiGate unit begins scanning the file. During
the buffering and scanning procedure, the user must wait. After the scan is completed, if no
infection is found, the file is sent to the next step in the process flow. If the file is a large one this
part of the process can take some time. In some cases enough time that some users may get
impatient and cancel the download.
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The comfort client feature to mitigates this potential issue by feeding a trickle of data while
waiting for the scan to complete so as to let the user know that processing is taking place and
that there hasnt been a failure in the transmission. This slow transfer rate continues until the
antivirus scan is complete. Once the file has been successfully scanned without any indication
of viruses the transfer will proceed at full speed.
If there is evidence of an infection the FortiGate unit caches the URL and drops the connection.
The client does not receive any notification of what happened because the download to the
client had already started. Instead, the download stops and the user is left with a partially
downloaded file. If the user tries to download the same file again within a short period of time,
the cached URL is matched and the download is blocked. The client receives the Infection
cache message replacement message as a notification that the download has been blocked.
The number of URLs in the cache is limited by the size of the cache.
Client comforting is available for HTTP and FTP traffic. If your FortiGate unit supports SSL
content scanning and inspection, you can also configure client comforting for HTTPS and FTPS
traffic.
Buffering the entire file allows the FortiGate unit to eliminate the danger of missing an infection
due to fragmentation because the file is reassembled before examination. Client comforting can
send unscanned and therefore potentially infected content to the client. You should only enable
client comforting if you are prepared to accept this risk. Keeping the client comforting interval
high and the amount low will reduce the amount of potentially infected data that is downloaded.
Oversized File/Email Threshold
This is another feature that is related to antivirus scanning. The FortiGate unit has a finite
amount of resources that can be used to buffer and scan a file. If a large file such as an ISO
image or video file was to be downloaded this could not only overwhelm the memory of the
FortiGate, especially if there were other large files being downloaded at the same time, but
could exceed it as well. For this reason, how to treat large files needs to be addressed.
A threshold is assigned to determine what should be considered an oversize file or email. This
can be set at any size from 1 MB to 50 MB. Any file or email over this threshold will not be
processed by the Antivirus Security Profiles. Once a file is determined to be oversized it must be
then determined whether to allow it or to block it.
These settings are not a technical decision but a policy one that will depend on your comfort
level with letting files into your network. As there often is, there is a compromise between
convenience or ease of use and security. If you want to go for a high peace of mind level you
can configure the firewall to block oversized files and thus no files would be coming into the
network that have not been scanned. If you are looking for optimizing the memory of the
FortiGate unit and making sure that everybody is getting the files they want, you can lower the
threshold and allow files that are over the threshold.
It should be noted that in terms of probability that malware is more likely to be found in smaller
files than in larger files. A number of administrators take this into account when they lower the
default threshold so as to lessen the impact on memory if they see the FortiGate unit going into
conserve mode on a regular basis.
Chunked Bypass
The HTTP section allows the enabling of Chunked Bypass. This refers to the mechanism in
version 1.1 of HTTP that allows a web server to start sending chunks of dynamically generated
output in response to a request before actually knowing the actual size of the content. Where
dynamically generated content is concerned this means that there is a faster initial response to
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HTTP requests. From a security stand point it means that the content will not be held in the
proxy as an entire file before proceeding.
Allow Fragmented Messages
The specifications of RFC 2046 allow for the breaking up of emails and sending the fragments in
parallel to be rebuilt and read at the other end by the mail server. It was originally designed to
increase the performance over slower connections where larger email messages were involved.
It will depend on your mail configuration if this is even possible for your network but outside of
Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express, not many email clients are set up to break up
messages like this. The drawback of allowing this feature is that if malware is broken up
between multiple fragments of the message the risk is run that it will not be detected by some
antivirus configurations because the code may not all be present at the same time to identify.
Append Email Signature
The Append Email Signature is used when an organization would like to ensure that over and
above our in this case underneath the existing personal signatures of the sender, all of the
emails going out of their network have the appropriate boilerplate, for lack of a better term.
These appended emails do not replace existing signatures. They are as the feature states,
appended to the email.
Examples could include things like:
Without prior approval the email should not be forwarded.
Please be environmentally friendly and dont print out emails
For questions regarding the purchasing of our products please call...
It can be anything that the organization would like as long as it is in text format. The use of this
feature usually works best in an environment where there is some standardization of what goes
into the personal signatures of the senders so that there is no duplication or contradiction of
information in the signatures.
SSL/SSH Inspection
While the profile configuration for this is not found in the Security Profiles section but in the
Policy Section, it is set in the policy along with the security profiles. This sort of analysis is some
times referred to as deep scanning.
Deep Inspection works along the following lines. If your FortiGate unit has the correct chipset it
will be able to scan SSL encrypted traffic in the same way that regular traffic can be scanned.
The FortiGate firewall will essentially receive the traffic on behalf of the client and open up the
encrypted traffic. Once it is finished it re-encrypts the traffic and sends it on to its intended
recipient. It is very similar to a man-in-the-middle attack. By enabling this feature, it allows the
FortiGate firewall to filter on traffic that is using the SSL encrypted protocol.
The encrypted protocols that can be inspected are:
HTTPS
SMTPS
POP3S
IMAPS
FTPS
Before the invention of SSL inspection, scanning regular web traffic can be circumvented by
using the prefix https:// instead of http:// in the URL. SSL inspection prevents this
circumvention. However, because when the encrypted traffic is decrypted it has to be
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re-encrypted with the FortiGates certificate rather than the original certificate it can cause
errors because the name on the certificate does not match the name on the web site.
At one point deep inspection was something that was either turned on or off. Now individual
deep inspection profiles can be created depending on the requirements of the policy.
Depending on the Inspection Profile, you can:
Configure which CA certificate will be used to decrypt the SSL encrypted traffic.
Configure which SSL protocols will be inspected.
Configure which ports will be associated with which SSL protocols for the purpose of
inspection.
Configure which websites will be exempt from SSL inspection
Configure whether or not to allow invalid SSL certificates.
Configure whether or not SSH traffic will be inspected.
Inspection Exemption
When you are using a browser to visit SSL encrypted sites and we are using a certificate that
does not match the certificate of the site, we are presented with a warning message and the
option of continuing, using the untrusted certificate, or terminating the session. However, there
are a number of applications that use SSL encrypted traffic. If the application detects SSL traffic
that wasn't signed with a certificate that it trusts it will not allow the traffic. The applications do
not give the option to manually indicate that we trust the certificate or the site.
If the option is available, the customer may choose to import needed SSL certificates into Local
Certificates and configure a policy for communication for that application.
The assist in preventing loss of access to these site but still enabling the SSL inspection of the
rest of the internet traffic, a method of exempting either Website categories or specific sites has
been developed. To exempt a large group of sites the profile can be configure to exempt
FortiGuard Categories. There are 3 of these categories preselected due to the high likelihood of
issues with associated applications with the type of websites included in these categories.
Heath and Wellness
Personal Privacy
Finance and Banking
Other more specific websites can be added to the exemption list by creating addresses for
them at Policy & Objects > Objects > Addresses. The adding of addresses is done by selection
from a drop down menu. There is an option at the bottom of the list to create a new address, but
otherwise only preconfigured addresses that are configured to be on the "Any" interface will be
available for selection.
Examples of sites that you may want to configure for exemption so that there will be no
interference due to certificate issues:
Apple
*.appstore.com
*.apple.com
*.itunes.apple.com
*.icloud.com
swscan.apple.com
Dropbox
*.dropbox.com
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Skype
*.messenger.live.com
Windows Updates
update.microsoft.com
Allow Invalid SSL Certificate
This setting was something that used to be part of the Proxy Options, but now that SSL
inspection has its own configuration setting it is configured with those. It might seem like a
straight forward decision that the allowing of invalid SSL certificates must be bad and therefore
should not be allowed, but there can be some reasons that should be considered. The issues at
hand are the reasons to use a SSL certificate and the reasons that a certificate will be
considered invalid.
At a purely technical level, a properly formed certificate will encrypt the data so that it can only
be read by the intended parties and not be read by anyone sniffing traffic on the network. For
this reason, people will often use self-signed certificates. These self signed certificates are free
and will encrypt the data just as well as those purchased from any of the big vendors of
certificates, but if they are not listed as an approved Certificate Authority (CA) the certificates
will be considered invalid.
On the other hand, one of the services the vendors provide is verification of identity of those
that purchase their certificates. This means that if you see a valid certificate from a site that
identified itself as being from valid-company.com that you can be reasonably sure that the site
does belong to that company and not a false site masquerading as being part of that company.
Creating or editing an SSL/SSH Inspection profile
1. Go to Policy & Objects > Policy > SSL/SSH Inspection.
This will open to one of the existing profiles.
The links for the actions are located in the upper right hand corner of the window.
To view a list of the exiting profiles select the List icon (a page) at the far right.
To clone an existing profile, select the Clone icon (one page behind another), second
from the right
To create a new profile, select the Create New icon ("+ "symbol), third from the right.
To view or edit an existing profile, choose it from the dropdown menu field.
2. Name Field:
Give the Profile an easily identifiable name that references its intent.
3. Comments Field:
Enter any additional information that might be needed by administrators, as a reminder of
the profile's purpose and scope.
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4. SSL Inspection Options
a. Enable SSL Inspection of:
Multiple Clients Connecting to Multiple Servers - Use this option for generic policies
where the destination is unknown.
Protecting SSL Server - Use this option when setting up a profile customized for a
specific SSL server with a specific certificate.
b. CA Certificate
Use the drop down menu to choose which one of the installed certificates to use for the
inspection of the packets.
c. Inspection Method
The options here are:
SSL Certificate Inspection - only inspects the certificate, not the contents of the
traffic.
Full SSL Inspection - inspects all of the traffic.
d. Inspect All Ports
Enable the ability to inspect all ports by checking the box. If the feature is not enabled,
specify in the field next to the listed protocols, the port through which that protocols
traffic will be inspected. Traffic of that protocol going through any other port will not be
inspected.
5. Exempt from SSL Inspection
Use the dropdown menus in this section to specify either a FortiGuard Web Category or
addresses that will be exempt from SSL inspection.
a. Web Categories
By default the categories of Health and Wellness, Personal Privacy, and Finance and
Banking have been added as these are one that are most likely to have applications that
will require a specific certificate.
b. Addresses
These can be any of the Address objects that have an interface of "Any".
6. SSH Inspection Options
a. SSH Deep Scan
Toggle the grey on button so that it is:
Greyed out to disable the feature
Opaque and vibrate to enable the feature
If the feature is enabled the following options will be available:
b. SSH Port
The available options are:
Any - choosing this option will search all of the traffic regardless of service or TCP/IP
port for packets that conform to the SSH protocol
Specify - choosing this option will restrict the search for SSH protocol packets to the
TCP/IP port number specified in the field. This is not as comprehensive but it is easier
on the performance of the firewall.
c. Protocol Actions
Exec - Block, Log or neither. Select using check boxes.
Port-Forward - Block, Log or neither. Select using check boxes.
SSH-Shell - Block, Log or neither. Select using check boxes.
X11-Filter - Block, Log or neither. Select using check boxes.
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7. Common Options
a. Allow Invalid SSL Certificates
Check the box to enable the passing of traffic with invalid certificate
b. Log Invalid Certificates
Check the box to have the Logging function record traffic sessions that contained invalid
certificates
Viewing Firewall Policies
When you first go into the Policy window, found by going to Policy > Policy > Policy, you will see
a table with a menu bar across the top. The menu bar will have the following items:
At the top left
Create New (with a + sign on the left and a downward pointing triangle on the right)
Clone
Delete
Column Settings
Filter Settings
At the top right
Section View
Global View
The items at the top right with their radio buttons represent the 2 potential views that the
policies can be displayed in.
The Global View shows all of the policies in the order of their sequence. With the default settings
you will be able to see the sequence number in a column close to the left side of the table.
The Section view is similar to the Global View except that as the name implies it is divided into
sections. By default the sections are based on the paths between the interfaces. These can be
referred to as interface pairings. For instance, all of the policies referencing traffic from WAN1
to DMZ will be in one section. The policies referencing traffic from DMZ to WAN1 will be in
another section.
The sections are collapsible so that you only need to look at the sections with policies you are
interested in. It is possible to add customized subsections within the default sections of
interface pairings. This would be useful in a situation where you have a lot of policies and would
like to further compartmentalize them by common attributes so that things are easier to find.
The Enable SSH Deep Scan feature is enabled by default when creating a new SSL/SSH
Inspection profile. There are situations were this feature can cause issues so be sure that you
would like it enabled before applying it.
The context location for configuring the SSL/SSH Inspection in the CLI is:
config firewall ssl-ssh-profile
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The default column headings are:
[Check box icon]
Seq.#
Source
Destination
Authentication
Schedule
Service
Action
Log
The column that are shown are configurable. All but the first 2 can be removed or their position
changed. There are also a number of other columns that display information about the policies
that can be added. One of the more useful ones that can be added is the ID column. The reason
for adding this one is that policies are referenced by their ID number for simplicity and ease of
administration. If you are looking in the CLI you will see that the only designation for a policy is
its number and if you wish to change the order of a policy you will be asked to move it before or
after another policy by referencing its number.
How Any policy can remove the Section View
The FortiGate unit will automatically change the view on the policy list page to Global View
whenever a policy containing any in the Source interface/zone or Destination interface/zone is
created. If the Section View is greyed out it is likely that one or more of the policies has any as
a Source or Destination interface.
With the use of the any the policy should go into multiple sections because it could effectively
be any of a number of interface pairings. As mentioned, policies are sectioned by using the
interface pairings (for example, port1 -> port2) and each section has its own specific policy
order. The order in which a policy is checked for matching criteria to a packets information is
based solely on the position of the policy within its section or within the entire list of policies as
a whole but if the policy is in multiple sections at the same time there is no mechanism for
placing the policy in a proper order within all of those sections at the same time because it is a
manual process and there is no parameter to compare the precedence of one section or policy
over the other. Thus a conflict is created. In order to resolve the conflict the FortiGate firewall
removes that aspect of the sections so that there is no need to compare and find precedence
between the sections and it therefore has only the Global View to work with.
Security policy configuration extensions
When first creating the policy the configuration form will ask for a choice between the policy
types of Firewall or VPN, Firewall being the default. Choosing whether or not to leave the
selection as Firewall is straight forward. If the policy is not a policy based VPN policy then it is a
Firewall policy type.
There are essentially 2 types of VPN connections, Interface Based and Policy Based. In an
Interface Based VPN tunnel a logical interface is created that can be seen as an interface by the
policies in the same way that any of the physical interfaces can be seen. Therefore to govern the
traffic a regular policy will work. The policy based VPN tunnels work slightly different and
therefore need a slightly different policy configuration. For a more detail explanation of the
difference between the types of VPN tunnels refer to the VPN documentation found in the VPN
handbooks or in the VPN section of the Complete Administration Guide.
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Once either the Firewall or the VPN type has been chosen there is then a choice between one of
subtypes for each of the Policy types. For the Firewall type of policy the subtypes are:
Address
User Identity
Device Identity
The Address subtype refers to policies where access through the FortiGate firewall is
dependant on the source location of the addresses of the devices involved in the traffic
matched to the policy.
The User Identity subtype refers to polices where access through the FortiGate firewall is
dependant on the users credentials or Identity.
The Device Identity subtype refers to policy where access through the FortiGate firewall is
dependant on the specific device being used based on the MAC address of the device or
belonging to a group of devices that are based on device types or belonging to custom made
groups.
For the VPN type the subtypes are:
IPSec
SSL-VPN
As expected the two subtypes are the two different types of VPN tunnels that the FortiGate
firewall supports in a policy based configuration.
Identity Based Policies
Identity based policies are ones in which there is the additional component of either an account
identity or device identity. The inclusion of one or both of these components adds an extra
dimension of complexity to working with these policies in the context of the other policies so
while the extra security and granularity of control are beneficial, extra care must be taken when
configuring the policies themselves and how they are positioned in the policy sequence. The
actual configuration of these identities are explained in detail in the Authentication Handbook.
Identity-based security policies are usually configured for IPSec or SSL VPN traffic since this
type of traffic usually requires authentication from network users.
Identity-based policy positioning
In non-identity based policies, if non of the 6 mandatory policy parameters matches the header
of the traffic packets the parameters are compared against the next policy in sequence.
Because those parameters are mandatory there is always a value to test against and whether or
not the policy applies is certain. The fact that the identity parameters are not required makes
knowing whether or not the correct policy will be applied less obvious.
Originally, the identity aspect of a policy was an entire sub-policy checking sequence within
each policy, including its own 0 policy at the end of the sequence. If all of the other parameters
match the policy would then compare the traffic's identity with the list of identity groups in the
policy starting at the beginning of the sequence and going through them until an identity was
found that matched and then the rules for that identity group would be applied. If the traffic's
identity did not match any of those listed in the policy it go to the last identity in the policy would
be everyone and the Action would be deny.
The identity aspects of policies have now been incorporated in a single flat configuration that
makes them a fundimental part of the policy rather than something that is added to the policy.
This is simplier and allows for more complex combinations of address identification, user
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authentication and device determination that were not possible with previous policy
configurations. Both user groups and device groups can be part of the same policy. Because
the identity aspects are optional, more flexibility in creating policies that use authentication is
possible.
Identity fall through rules
The fall through rules for policies in 5.2 have changed so that they are more in keeping with the
practices of other vendors. This makes it easier for users used to other firewalls to configure the
policies and it also makes it simplier to convert the policies of other firewalls to be used on a
FortiGate firewall.
Previously, if traffic reached an identity policy and the user or device was not a member of one
of the groups specified it would fall through to the implicit deny all policy. This meant that any
traffic that reached that policy would have to be authenticated and a member of one of the
listed groups. If the 6 required parameters matched, the traffic would not be getting past this
policy.
The approach is now to treat the the identity parameters, if they exist, the same as the other
parameters, in that if they do not match any listed in the policy, the traffic drops down to the
next policy.
Example:
There are three policies where all the parameters are the same except:
Policy # 1 - Source User Group A is assigned profile A
Policy # 2 - Source User Group B s assigned profile B
Policy # 3 - Source User(s) and Source Device Type are empty
Traffic that matches all of the required parameters will be processed as follows:
Traffic authenticated as being from User Group A will be processed by Policy # 1.
Traffic authenticated as being from User Group B will be processed by Policy # 2.
Traffic with no authenticated users will be processed by Policy # 3.
Traffic authenticated as being from User Group C will be processed by Policy # 3.
In the methodology before FortiOS 5.2, traffic authenticated as being User Group B, User Group
C or no authenticated user at all would have been stopped at Policy # 1.
The CLI command fall-through-unauthenticated that was added in 5.0.1 attempted to allow a
process similar to this, but only applied to unathenticated traffic and not authenticated traffic
that didnt match the list of groups is the the sub-policy. The current methodology is not subject
to the same limitation and alleviates the need for the function of this command so the command
has been removed from the CLI.
Implicit Protocols
In previous versions of the firmware, the protocols that were used to authenticate such as HTTP,
HTTPS, FTP, and Telnet, were supported on the policy whether or not they were included in the
supported services. In 5.2, the protocol needed to authenticate needs to be included in the list
of allowed services in order the the authentication to take place.
For example, if you have a VIP coming into your network that is for connecting to some security
webcams located in your data center that use custom services or ports to connect to, if you are
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using an identity policy you would also have to include HTTP or HTTPS in the services list in
order to actually authenticate.
Another formerly implicit protocol that is not supported automatically in 5.2 is port 53 (DNS). If
you are limiting the services of a protocol to web based protocols such as HTTP or HTTPS
dont forget to to add DNS so that the domain names can be resolved.
When upgrading the firmware from version 5.0.x to 5.2.x, a policy with either an identity or
device sub-policy will automatically convert from a single policy with sub-policies to a separate
policy for each identity based sub-policy.
VPN Policies
At one point, if you wanted to have secure digital communications between 2 points a private
network would be created. This network would only allow the people that were intended to get
the communications on it. This is very straightforward if the 2 points are in the same room or
even in the same building. It can all be done physically. If you are supposed to be on the secure
network
VPNs are an answer to one of todays biggest concerns, how to make digital communications
secure between to points that must communicate over the Internet which anybody can have
access to
IPSec Policies
IPSec policies allow IPSec VPN traffic access to the internal network from a remote location.
These policies include authentication information that authenticates users and user group or
groups. These policies specify the following:
the FortiGate firewall interface that provides the physical connection to the remote VPN
gateway, usually an interface connected to the Internet
the FortiGate firewall interface that connects to the private network
IP addresses associated with data that has to be encrypted and decrypted
optional: a schedule that restricts when the VPN can operate, and services (or types of data)
that can be sent.
For a route-based (interface mode) VPN, you do not configure an IPSec security policy. Instead,
you configure two regular ACCEPT security policies, one for each direction of communication,
with the IPSec virtual interface as the source or destination interface, as appropriate.
Interface Policies
Interface policies are implemented before the security policies and are only flow based.
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This feature allows you to attach a set of IPS policies with the interface instead of the forwarding
path, so packets can be delivered to IPS before entering firewall. This feature is used for
following IPS deployments:
One-Arm: by defining interface policies with IPS and DoS anomaly checks and enabling
sniff-mode on the interface, the interface can be used for one-arm IDS;
IPv6 IPS: IPS inspection can be enabled through interface IPv6 policy. Only IPS signature
scan is supported in FortiOS 4.0. IPv6 DoS protection is not supported;
Scan traffics that destined to FortiGate;
Scan and log traffics that are silently dropped or flooded by Firewall or Multicast traffic.
IPS sensors can be assigned to an interface policy. Both incoming and outgoing packets are
inspected by IPS sensor (signature).
Here is an example of an interface policy,
config firewall interface-policy
edit 1
set status enable
set interface "port14"
set srcaddr "all"
set dstaddr "all"
set service "ALL"
set application-list-status disable
set ips-sensor-status enable
set ips-sensor "default"
set av-profile-status disable
set webfilter-profile-status disable
set spamfilter-profile-status disable
set dlp-sensor-status disable
set label "Port 14 Interface Policy"
next
end
DoS Protection
Denial of Service (DoS) policies are primarily used to apply DoS anomaly checks to network
traffic based on the FortiGate interface it is entering as well as the source and destination
addresses. DoS checks are a traffic anomaly detection feature to identify network traffic that
does not fit known or common traffic patterns and behavior. A common example of anomalous
traffic is the denial of service attack. A denial of service occurs when an attacking system starts
an abnormally large number of sessions with a target system. The large number of sessions
slows down or disables the target system, so that legitimate users can no longer use it.
DoS policies are similar to firewall policies except that instead of defining the way traffic is
allowed to flow, they keep track of certain traffic patterns and attributes and will stop traffic
displaying those attributes. Further, DoS policies affect only incoming traffic on a single
interface. You can further limit a DoS policy by source address, destination address, and
service.
DoS configurations have been changed a couple of times in the past. In FortiOS 4.0, DoS
protection is moved to the interface policy, so when it is enabled, it is the first thing checked
when a packet enters FortiGate. Because of this early detection, DoS policies are a very
efficient defence that uses few resources. Denial of service attacks, for example, are detected
and its packets dropped before requiring security policy look-ups, antivirus scans, and other
protective but resource-intensive operations.
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A DoS policy examines network traffic arriving at an interface for anomalous patterns usually
indicating an attack. This does not mean that all anomalies experience by the firewall are the
result of an intentional attack.
Because an improperly configured DoS anomaly check can interfere with network traffic, no
DoS checks are preconfigured on a factory default FortiGate unit. You must create your own
before they will take effect. Thresholds for newly created sensors are preset with recommended
values that you can adjust to meet the needs of your network.
To create a Denial of Service policy determine if it needs to be an IPv4 or IPv6 policy, then goto:
Policy > Policy > DoS Policy for IPv4.
Policy > Policy > IPv6 DoS Policy for IPv6.
It is important to know normal and expected network traffic before changing the default
anomaly thresholds. Setting the thresholds too low could cause false positives, and setting the
thresholds too high could allow otherwise avoidable attacks.
Settings used in configuring DoS
Incoming Interface
The interface to which this security policy applies. It will be the that the traffic is coming into the
firewall on.
Source Address
This will be the address that the traffic is coming from and must be a address listed in the
Address section of the Firewall Objects. This can include the predefined all address which
covers any address coming in on any interface. Multiple addresses or address groups can be
chosen
Destination Address
This will be the address that the traffic is addressed to. In this case it must be an address that is
associated with the firewall itself. For instance it could be one of the interface address of the
firewall, a secondary IP address or the interface address assigned to a Virtual IP address. Just
like with the Source Address this address must be already configured before being used in the
DoS policy.Multiple addresses, virtual IPs or virtual IP groups can be chosen.
Service
While the Service field allows for the use of the ALL service some administrators prefer to
optimize the resources of the firewall and only check on the services that will be answered on an
interface. Multiple services or service groups can be chosen.
Anomalies
The anomalies can not be configured by the user. They are predefined sensors set up for
specific patterns of anomalous traffic
The anomalies that have been predefined for use in the DoS Policies are:
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Anomaly Name Description Recommended
Threshold
tcp_syn_flood If the SYN packet rate of new TCP connections,
including retransmission, to one destination IP address
exceeds the configured threshold value, the action is
executed.
2000 packets
per second.
tcp_port_scan If the SYN packet rate of new TCP connections,
including retransmission, from one source IP address
exceeds the configured threshold value, the action is
executed.
1000 packets
per second.
tcp_src_session If the number of concurrent TCP connections from one
source IP address exceeds the configured threshold
value, the action is executed.
5000 concurrent
sessions.
tcp_dst_session If the number of concurrent TCP connections to one
destination IP address exceeds the configured threshold
value, the action is executed.
5000 concurrent
sessions.
udp_flood If the UDP traffic to one destination IP address exceeds
the configured threshold value, the action is executed.
2000 packets
per second.
udp_scan If the number of UDP sessions originating from one
source IP address exceeds the configured threshold
value, the action is executed.
2000 packets
per second.
udp_src_session If the number of concurrent UDP connections from one
source IP address exceeds the configured threshold
value, the action is executed.
5000 concurrent
sessions.
udp_dst_session If the number of concurrent UDP connections to one
destination IP address exceeds the configured threshold
value, the action is executed.
5000 concurrent
sessions.
icmp_flood If the number of ICMP packets sent to one destination IP
address exceeds the configured threshold value, the
action is executed.
250 packets per
second.
icmp_sweep If the number of ICMP packets originating from one
source IP address exceeds the configured threshold
value, the action is executed.
100 packets per
second.
icmp_src_session If the number of concurrent ICMP connections from one
source IP address exceeds the configured threshold
value, the action is executed.
300 concurrent
sessions
icmp_dst_session If the number of concurrent ICMP connections to one
destination IP address exceeds the configured threshold
value, the action is executed.
3000 concurrent
sessions
ip_src_session If the number of concurrent IP connections from one
source IP address exceeds the configured threshold
value, the action is executed.
5000 concurrent
sessions.
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Status
The status field is enabled to enable the sensor for the associated anomaly. In terms of actions
performed there is no difference between disabling a sensor and having the action as Pass
but by disabling sensors that are not being used for blocking or logging you can save some
resources of the firewall that can be better used elsewhere.
Logging
Regardless of whether the traffic is blocked or passed through the anomalous traffic will be
logged.
Pass
Allows the anomalous traffic to pass through unimpeded.
Block
For Thresholds based on the number of concurrent sessions blocking the anomaly will not allow
more than the number of concurrent sessions set as the threshold.
For rate based thresholds where the threshold is measured in packets per second, the Action
setting Block prevents the overwhelming of the firewall by anomalous traffic in one of 2 ways.
Setting which of those 2 ways will be issued is determined in the CLI.
continuous - blocks any packets that match the anomaly criteria once the threshold has
been reached
periodical - allows matching anomalous traffic up to the rate set by the threshold.
To set the type of block action for the rate based anomaly sensors:
config ips global
set anomaly-mode continuous
set anomaly-mode periodical
end
Threshold
ip_dst_session If the number of concurrent IP connections to one
destination IP address exceeds the configured threshold
value, the action is executed.
5000 concurrent
sessions.
sctp_flood If the number of SCTP packets sent to one destination IP
address exceeds the configured threshold value, the
action is executed.
2000 packets
per second
sctp_scan If the number of SCTP sessions originating from one
source IP address exceeds the configured threshold
value, the action is executed.
1000 packets
per second
sctp_src_session If the number of concurrent SCTP connections from one
source IP address exceeds the configured threshold
value, the action is executed.
5000
concurrent
sessions
sctp_dst_session If the number of concurrent SCTP connections to one
destination IP address exceeds the configured threshold
value, the action is executed.
5000
concurrent
sessions
Anomaly Name Description Recommended
Threshold
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The threshold can be either in terms of concurrent session or in packets per second depending
on which sensor is being referred to.
One-Arm IDS
Interface-based policy only defines what and how IPS functions are applied to the packets
transmitted by the interface. It works no matter if the port is used in a forwarding path or used
as an One-Arm device.
To enable One-Arm IDS, the user should first enable sniff-mode on the interface,
config system interface
edit port2
set ips-sniffer-mode enable
next
end
Once sniff-mode is turned on, both incoming and outgoing packets will be dropped after IPS
inspections. The port can be connected to a hub or a switch's SPAN port. Any packet picked up
by the interface will still follow the interface policy so different IPS and DoS anomaly checks can
be applied.
IPv6 IPS
IPv6 IPS signature scan can be enabled by interface policy. The user can create an normal IPS
sensor and assign it to the IPv6 interface policy.
config firewall interface-policy6
edit 1
set interface "port1"
set srcaddr6 "all"
set dstaddr6 "all"
set service6 "ANY"
set ips-sensor-status enable
set ips-sensor "all_default"
next
end
Traffic Destined to the FortiGate unit
IPS enabled in firewall policies can only inspect the traffic pass through FortiGate unit, not the
traffic destined to FortiGate unit. Enabling IPS in interface-policy allows IPS to pick up any
packet on the interface so it is able to inspect attacks targeting FGT.
Dropped, Flooded, Broadcast, Multicast and L2 packets
In many evaluation or certification tests, FortiGate firewall is often required to log any packets
dropped by the firewall. In most of cases, these packets are of invalid headers so firewall just
drops them silently. It is natural to forward all these packets to IPS first so FortiGate firewall is
able to generate logs for invalid packets.
Flooded, broadcast and multicast traffics do not reach any of services in the forwarding path.
They can be inspected by the interface policy as long as they match the addresses defined.
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Potentially, L2 packets can also be sent to IPS for inspection through interface-policy, but it is
not enabled in FortiOS 4.0.
GUI and CLI
Now in FortiGate, there are two places that IPS can be enabled, in a firewall policy and in an
interface policy. In the firewall policy implementation, IPS sensor can be configured in both CLI
and GUI. When adding an IPS sensor to an interface policy it must be done through the CLI.
There is no GUI input window for the Interface Policy. There is however, a DoS Policy section
in the GUI.
Local-In Policies
On the FortiGate unit, there are a number of protocols and traffic that is specific to the internal
workings of FortiOS. For many of these traffic sources, you can identify a specific port/IP
address for this self-originating traffic. The following traffic can be configured to a specific
port/IP address:
SNMP
Syslog
alert email
FortiManager connection IP
FortiGuard services
FortiAnalyzer logging
NTP
DNS
Authorization requests such as RADIUS
FSSO
Security policies control the flow of traffic through the FortiGate unit. The FortiGate unit also
includes the option of controlling internal traffic, that is, management traffic.
Each interface includes an allow access configuration to allow management access for specific
protocols. Local policies are set up automatically to allow all users all access. Local-in policies
takes this a step further, to enable or restrict the user with that access. This also extends
beyond the allow access selection.
Local-in policies are configured in the CLI with the commands:
config firewall local-in-policy
edit <policy_number>
set intf <source_interface>
set srcaddr <source_address>
set dstaddr <destination_address>
set action {accept | deny}
set service <service name>
set schedule <schedule_name>
end
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For example, you can configure a local-in policy so that only administrators can access the
FortiGate unit on weekends from a specific management computer at 192.168.21.12 using SSH
on port 3 (192.168.21.77) using the Weekend schedule which defines the time the of access.
config firewall local-in-policy
edit <1>
set intf port3
set srcaddr 192.168.21.12
set dstaddr 192.168.21.77
set action accept
set service SSH
set schedule Weekend
end
You can also disable a policy should there be a requirement to turn off a policy for
troubleshooting or other purpose. To disable a policy enter the commands:
config firewall local-in-policy
edit <policy_number>
set status disable
end
Use the same commands with a status of enable to use the policy again.
Local-in policies are also supported for IPv6 by entering the command
config firewall local-in-policy6.
Security Policy 0
Any security policy that is automatically added by the FortiGate unit has a policy ID number of
zero (0). The most common reasons the FortiGate unit creates this policy is:
The IPSec policy for FortiAnalyzer (and FortiManager version 3.0) is automatically added
when an IPSec connection to the FortiAnalyzer unit or FortiManager is enabled.
The policy to allow FortiGuard servers to be automatically added has a policy ID number of
zero.
The (default) drop rule that is the last rule in the policy and that is automatically added has a
policy ID number of zero.
When a network zone is defined within a VDOM, the intra-zone traffic set to allow or block is
managed by policy 0 if it is not processed by a configured security policy.
This policy can appear in logs but will never appear in the security policy list, and therefore, can
never be repositioned in the list.
When viewing the FortiGate firewall logs, you may find a log field entry indicating policyid=0.
The following log message example indicates the log field policyid=0 in bold.
2008-10-06 00:13:49 log_id=0022013001 type=traffic subtype=violation
pri=warning vd=root SN=179089 duration=0 user=N/A group=N/A rule=0
policyid=0 proto=17 service=137/udp app_type=N/A status=deny
src=10.181.77.73 srcname=10.181.77.73 dst=10.128.1.161
dstname=10.128.1.161 src_int=N/A dst_int="Internal" sent=0 rcvd=0
src_port=137 dst_port=137 vpn=N/A tran_ip=0.0.0.0 tran_port=0
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Deny Policies
Deny security policies deny traffic that is coming into the network. The FortiGate unit
automatically blocks traffic that is associated with a deny security policy.
Deny security policies are usually configured when you need to restrict specific traffic, for
example, SSH traffic. Deny security policies can also help when you want to block a service,
such as DNS, but allow a specific DNS server.
Accept Policies
Accept security policies accept traffic that is coming into the network. These policies allow
traffic through the FortiGate unit, where the packets are scanned, translated if NAT is enabled,
and then sent out to its destination.
Accept security policies are the most common security policies that are created in FortiOS.
These security policies are basic policies, such as allowing Internet access, as well as complex
policies, such as IPSec VPN.
IPv6 Policies
IPv6 security policies are created both for an IPv6 network, and a transitional network. A
transitional network is a network that is transitioning over to IPv6, but must still have access to
the Internet or must connect over an IPv4 network.
These policies allow for this specific type of traffic to travel between the IPv6 and IPv4
networks. The IPv6 options for creating these policies is hidden by default. You must enable this
feature in System > Config > Settings.
Fixed Port
Some network configurations do not operate correctly if a NAT policy translates the source port
of packets used by the connection. NAT translates source ports to keep track of connections for
a particular service.
From the CLI you can enable fixedport when configuring a security policy for NAT policies to
prevent source port translation.
config firewall policy
edit <policy-id>
...
set fixedport enable
...
end
However, enabling fixedport means that only one connection can be supported through the
firewall for this service. To be able to support multiple connections, add an IP pool, and then
select Dynamic IP pool in the policy. The firewall randomly selects an IP address from the IP
pool and assigns it to each connection. In this case, the number of connections that the firewall
can support is limited by the number of IP addresses in the
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Endpoint Security
Endpoint security enforces the use of the FortiClient End Point Security (FortiClient and
FortiClient Lite) application on your network. It can also allow or deny endpoints access to the
network based on the application installed on them.
By applying endpoint security to a security policy, you can enforce this type of security on your
network. FortiClient enforcement can check that the endpoint is running the most recent version
of the FortiClient application, that the antivirus signatures are up-to-date, and that the firewall is
enabled. An endpoint is usually often a single PC with a single IP address being used to access
network services through a FortiGate unit.
With endpoint security enabled on a policy, traffic that attempts to pass through, the FortiGate
unit runs compliance checks on the originating host on the source interface. Non-compliant
endpoints are blocked. If someone is browsing the web, the endpoints are redirected to a web
portal which explains the non-compliance and provides a link to download the FortiClient
application installer. The web portal is already installed on the FortiGate unit, as a replacement
message, which you can modify if required.
Endpoint Security requires that all hosts using the security policy have the FortiClient Endpoint
Security agent installed. Currently, FortiClient Endpoint Security is available for Microsoft
Windows 2000 and later only.
For more information about endpoint security, see the Security Profiles chapter in the FortiOS
Handbook.
Traffic Logging
When you enable logging on a security policy, the FortiGate unit records the scanning process
activity that occurs, as well as whether the FortiGate unit allowed or denied the traffic according
to the rules stated in the security policy. This information can provide insight into whether a
security policy is working properly, as well as if there needs to be any modifications to the
security policy, such as adding traffic shaping for better traffic performance.
Depending on what the FortiGate unit has in the way of resourses, there may be advantages in
optimizing the amount of logging taking places. This is why in each policy you are given 3
options for the logging:
No Log - Does not record any log messages about traffic accepted by this policy.
Log Security Events - records only log messages relating to security events caused by traffic
accepted by this policy.
Log all Sessions - records all log messages relating to all of the traffic accepted by this
policy.
Depending on the the model, if the Log all Sessions option is selected there may be 2
additional options. These options are normally available in the GUI on the higher end models
such as the FortiGate 600C or larger.
Generate Logs when Session Starts
Capture Packets
You can also use the CLI to enter the following command to write a log message when a
session starts:
config firewall policy
edit <policy-index>
set logtraffic-start
end
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Traffic is logged in the traffic log file and provides detailed information that you may not think
you need, but do. For example, the traffic log can have information about an application used
(web: HTTP.Image), and whether or not the packet was SNAT or DNAT translated. The following
is an example of a traffic log message.
2011-04-13
05:23:47
log_id=4
type=traffic
subtype=other
pri=notice
vd=root
status="start"
src="10.41.101.20"
srcname="10.41.101.20"
src_port=58115
dst="172.20.120.100"
dstname="172.20.120.100"
dst_country="N/A"
dst_port=137
tran_ip="N/A"
tran_port=0
tran_sip="10.31.101.41"
tran_sport=58115
service="137/udp"
proto=17
app_type="N/A"
duration=0
rule=1
policyid=1
sent=0
rcvd=0
shaper_drop_sent=0
shaper_drop_rcvd=0
perip_drop=0
src_int="internal"
dst_int="wan1"
SN=97404 app="N/A"
app_cat="N/A"
carrier_ep="N/A"
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If you want to know more about logging, see the Logging and Reporting chapter in the FortiOS
Handbook. If you want to know more about traffic log messages, see the FortiGate Log
Message Reference.
Quality of Service
The Quality of Service (QoS) feature allows the management of the level of service and
preference given to the various types and sources of traffic going through the firewall so that the
traffic that is important to the services and functions connecting through the firewall gets the
treatment required to ensure the level of quality that is required.
QoS uses the following techniques:
Traffic policing Packets are dropped that do not conform to bandwidth limitations
Traffic Shaping Assigning minimum levels of bandwidth to be allocated to specific
traffic flows to guarantee levels of servers or assigning maximum levels
of bandwidth to be allocated to specific traffic flows so that they do not
impede other flows of traffic.
This helps to ensure that the traffic may consume bandwidth at least at the guaranteed rate by
assigning a greater priority queue if the guarantee is not being met. Traffic shaping also ensures
that the traffic cannot consume bandwidth greater than the maximum at any given instant in
time. Flows that are greater than the maximum rate are subject to traffic policing.
Queuing
Assigning differing levels priority to different traffic flows so that traffic flows that are adversely
effected by latency are prevented from being effected by traffic flows that are not subject to the
effects of latency. All traffic in a higher priority traffic queue must be completely transmitted
before traffic in lower priority queues will be transmitted.
An example of where you would want to use something like this is if you had competing traffic
flows of Voice over IP traffic and email traffic. The VoIP traffic is highly susceptible to latency
issues.If you have a delay of a few seconds it is quickly noticeable when it is occurring. Email on
the other hand can have a time delay of much longer and it is highly unlikely that it will be
noticed at all.
By default, the priority given to any traffic is high, so if you want to give one type of traffic
priority over all other traffic you will need to lower the priority of all of the other traffic.
Policy Monitor
Once policies have been configured and enabled it is useful to be able to monitor them. To get
an overview about what sort of traffic the policies are processing go to Policy > Monitor > Policy
Monitor.
The window is separated into two panes.
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Upper Pane
The upper pane displays a horizontal bar graph comparing the Top Policy Usage based on one
of the following criteria:
Active Sessions
Bytes
Packets
The criteria that the displayed graph is based on can be selected from the drop down menu in
the upper right corner of the pane. The field name is Report By:.
The bars of the graph are interactive to an extent and can be used to drill down for more
specific information. If you hover the cursor over the bar of the graph a small popup box will
appear displaying more detailed information. If the bar of the graph is selected an entirely new
window will be displayed using a vertical bar graph to divide the data that made up the first
graph by IP address.
For example if the first graph was reporting usage by active sessions it would include a bar for
each of the top polices with a number at the end showing how many sessions were currently
going through that policy. If one of the bars of the graph was then selected the new bar graph
would show the traffic of that policy separated by either Source Address, Destination Address
or Destination Port. As in the other window, the selection for the reported criteria is in the upper
right corner of the pane. If the parameter was by source address there would be a bar for each
of the IP addresses sending a session through the policy and the end of the bar would show
how many sessions.
To go back to the previous window of information in the graphs select the Return link in the
upper left of the pane.
Lower Pane
The lower pane contains a spreadsheet of the information that the bar graph will derive their
information from. The column headings will include:
Policy ID
Source Interface/Zone
Destination Interface/Zone
Action
Active Sessions
Bytes
Packets
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Network defense
This section describes in general terms the means by which attackers can attempt to
compromise your network and steps you can take to protect it. The goal of an attack can be as
complex as gaining access to your network and the privileged information it contains, or as
simple as preventing customers from accessing your web server. Even allowing a virus onto
your network can cause damage, so you need to protect against viruses and malware even if
they are not specifically targeted at your network.
The following topics are included in this section:
Monitoring
Blocking external probes
Defending against DoS attacks
Monitoring
Monitoring, in the form of logging, alert email, and SNMP, does not directly protect your
network. But monitoring allows you to review the progress of an attack, whether afterwards or
while in progress. How the attack unfolds may reveal weaknesses in your preparations. The
packet archive and sniffer policy logs can reveal more details about the attack. Depending on
the detail in your logs, you may be able to determine the attackers location and identity.
While log information is valuable, you must balance the log information with the resources
required to collect and store it.
Blocking external probes
Protection against attacks is important, but attackers often use vulnerabilities and network tools
to gather information about your network to plan an attack. It is often easier to prevent an
attacker from learning important details about your network than to defend against an attack
designed to exploit your particular network.
Attacks are often tailored to the hardware or operating system of the target, so reconnaissance
is often the first step. The IP addresses of the hosts, the open ports, and the operating systems
the hosts are running is invaluable information to an attacker. Probing your network can be as
simple as an attacker performing an address sweep or port scan to a more involved operation
like sending TCP packets with invalid combinations of flags to see how your firewall reacts.
Address sweeps
An address sweep is a basic network scanning technique to determine which addresses in an
address range have active hosts. A typical address sweep involves sending an ICMP ECHO
request (a ping) to each address in an address range to attempt to get a response. A response
signifies that there is a host at this address that responded to the ping. It then becomes a target
for more detailed and potentially invasive attacks.
Address sweeps do not always reveal all the hosts in an address range because some systems
may be configured to ignore ECHO requests and not respond, and some firewalls and gateways
may be configured to prevent ECHO requests from being transmitted to the destination
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network. Despite this shortcoming, Address sweeps are still used because they are simple to
perform with software tools that automate the process.
Use the icmp_sweep anomaly in a DoS policy to protect against address sweeps.
There are a number of IPS signatures to detect the use of ICMP probes that can gather
information about your network. These signatures include AddressMask, Traceroute,
ICMP.Invalid.Packet.Size, and ICMP.Oversized.Packet. Include ICMP protocol
signatures in your IPS sensors to protect against these probes/attacks.
Port scans
Potential attackers may run a port scan on one or more of your hosts. This involves trying to
establish a communication session to each port on a host. If the connection is successful, a
service may be available that the attacker can exploit.
Use the DoS anomaly check for tcp_port_scan to limit the number of sessions (complete and
incomplete) from a single source IP address to the configured threshold. If the number of
sessions exceed the threshold, the configured action is taken.
Use the DoS anomaly check for udp_scan to limit UDP sessions in the same way.
Probes using IP traffic options
Every TCP packet has space reserved for eight flags or control bits. They are used for
communicating various control messages. Although space in the packet is reserved for all eight,
there are various combinations of flags that should never happen in normal network operation.
For example, the SYN flag, used to initiate a session, and the FIN flag, used to end a session,
should never be set in the same packet.
Attackers may create packets with these invalid combinations to test how a host will react.
Various operating systems and hardware react in different ways, giving a potential attackers
clues about the components of your network.
The IPS signature TCP.Bad.Flags detects these invalid combinations. The default action is
pass though you can override the default and set it to Block in your IPS sensor.
Configure packet replay and TCP sequence checking
The anti-replay CLI command allows you to set the level of checking for packet replay and TCP
sequence checking (or TCP Sequence (SYN) number checking). All TCP packets contain a
Sequence Number (SYN) and an Acknowledgement Number (ACK). The TCP protocol uses
these numbers for error free end-to-end communications. TCP sequence checking can also be
used to validate individual packets.
FortiGate units use TCP sequence checking to make sure that a packet is part of a TCP
session. By default, if a packet is received with sequence numbers that fall out of the expected
range, the FortiGate unit drops the packet. This is normally a desired behavior, since it means
that the packet is invalid. But in some cases you may want to configure different levels of
anti-replay checking if some of your network equipment uses non-RFC methods when sending
packets.
Configure the anti-replay CLI command:
config system global
set anti-replay {disable | loose | strict}
end
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You can set anti-replay protection to the following settings:
disable No anti-replay protection.
loose Perform packet sequence checking and ICMP anti-replay checking with the
following criteria:
The SYN, FIN, and RST bit can not appear in the same packet.
The FortiGate unit does not allow more than one ICMP error packet through before it
receives a normal TCP or UDP packet.
If the FortiGate unit receives an RST packet, and check-reset-range is set to strict, the
FortiGate unit checks to determine if its sequence number in the RST is within the un-ACKed
data and drops the packet if the sequence number is incorrect.
strict Performs all of the loose checking but for each new session also checks to
determine of the TCP sequence number in a SYN packet has been calculated correctly and
started from the correct value for each new session. Strict anti-replay checking can also help
prevent SYN flooding.
If any packet fails a check it is dropped.
Configure ICMP error message verification
Enable ICMP error message verification to ensure an attacker can not send an invalid ICMP
error message.
config system global
check-reset-range {disable | strict}
end
disable the FortiGate unit does not validate ICMP error messages.
strict enable ICMP error message checking.
If the FortiGate unit receives an ICMP error packet that contains an embedded IP(A,B) |
TCP(C,D) header, then if FortiOS can locate the A:C->B:D session it checks to make sure that
the sequence number in the TCP header is within the range recorded in the session. If the
sequence number is not in range then the ICMP packet is dropped. Strict checking also affects
how the anti-replay option checks packets.
Protocol header checking
Select the level of checking performed on protocol headers.
config system global
check-protocol-header {loose | strict}
end
loose the FortiGate unit performs basic header checking to verify that a packet is part of
a session and should be processed. Basic header checking includes verifying that the
layer-4 protocol header length, the IP header length, the IP version, the IP checksum, IP
options are correct, etc.
strict the FortiGate unit does the same checking as above plus it verifies that ESP
packets have the correct sequence number, SPI, and data length.
If the packet fails header checking it is dropped by the FortiGate unit.
Evasion techniques
Attackers employ a wide range of tactics to try to disguise their techniques. If an attacker
disguises a known attack in such a way that it is not recognized, the attack will evade your
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security and possibly succeed. FortiGate security recognizes a wide variety of evasion
techniques and normalizes data traffic before inspecting it.
Packet fragmentation
Information sent across local networks and the Internet is encapsulated in packets. There is a
maximum allowable size for packets and this maximum size varies depending on network
configuration and equipment limitations. If a packet arrives at a switch or gateway and it is too
large, the data it carries is divided among two or more smaller packets before being forwarded.
This is called fragmentation.
When fragmented packets arrive at their destination, they are reassembled and read. If the
fragments do not arrive together, they must be held until all of the fragments arrive. Reassembly
of a packet requires all of the fragments.
The FortiGate unit automatically reassembles fragmented packets before processing them
because fragmented packets can evade security measures. Both IP packets and TCP packets
are reassembled by the IPS engine before examination.
For example, you have configured the FortiGate unit to block access to the example.org web
site. Any checks for example.com will fail if a fragmented packet arrives and one fragment
contains http://www.exa while the other contains mple.com/. Viruses and malware can be
fragmented and avoid detection in the same way. The FortiGate unit will reassemble fragmented
packets before examining network data to ensure that inadvertent or deliberate packet
fragmentation does not hide threats in network traffic.
Non-standard ports
Most traffic is sent on a standard port based on the traffic type. The FortiGate unit recognizes
most traffic by packet content rather than the TCP/UDP port and uses the proper IPS signatures
to examine it. Protocols recognized regardless of port include DHCP, DNP3, FTP, HTTP, IMAP,
MS RPC, NNTP, POP3, RSTP, SIP, SMTP, and SSL, as well as the supported IM/P2P application
protocols.
In this way, the FortiGate unit will recognize HTTP traffic being sent on port 25 as HTTP rather
than SMTP, for example. Because the protocol is correctly identified, the FortiGate unit will
examine the traffic for any enabled HTTP signatures.
Negotiation codes
Telnet and FTP servers and clients support the use of negotiation information to allow the server
to report what features it supports. This information has been used to exploit vulnerable servers.
To avoid this problem, the FortiGate unit removes negotiation codes before IPS inspection.
HTTP URL obfuscation
Attackers encode HTML links using various formats to evade detection and bypass security
measures. For example, the URL www.example.com/cgi.bin could be encoded in a number of
ways to avoid detection but still work properly, and be interpreted the same, in a web browser.
The FortiGate prevents the obfuscation by converting the URL to ASCII before inspection.
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HTTP header obfuscation
The headers of HTTP requests or responses can be modified to make the discovery of patterns
and attacks more difficult. To prevent this, the FortiGate unit will:
remove junk header lines
reassemble an HTTP header thats been folded onto multiple lines
move request parameters to HTTP POST body from the URL
The message is scanned for any enabled HTTP IPS signatures once these problems are
corrected.
HTTP body obfuscation
The body content of HTTP traffic can be hidden in an attempt to circumvent security scanning.
HTTP content can be GZipped or deflated to prevent security inspection. The FortiGate unit will
uncompress the traffic before inspecting it.
Another way to hide the contents of HTTP traffic is to send the HTTP body in small pieces,
splitting signature matches across two separate pieces of the HTTP body. The FortiGate unit
reassembles these chunked bodies before inspection.
Microsoft RPC evasion
Because of its complexity, the Microsoft Remote Procedure Call protocol suite is subject to a
number of known evasion techniques, including:
SMB-level fragmentation
DCERPC-level fragmentation
DCERPC multi-part fragmentation
DCERPC UDP fragmentation
Multiple DCERPC fragments in one packet
The FortiGate unit reassembles the fragments into their original form before inspection.
Table 5: HTTP URL obfuscation types
Encoding
type
Example
No encoding http://www.example.com/cgi.bin/
Decimal
encoding
http://www.example.com/&#99;&#103;&#105;&#46;&#98;&#105;&#110;&#47;
URL
encoding
http://www.example.com/%43%47%49%2E%42%49%4E%2F
ANSI
encoding
http://www.example.com/%u0063%u0067%u0069%u002E%u0062%u0069
%u006E/
Directory
traversal
http://www.example.com/cgi.bin/test/../
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Defending against DoS attacks
A denial of service is the result of an attacker sending an abnormally large amount of network
traffic to a target system. Having to deal with the traffic flood slows down or disables the target
system so that legitimate users can not use it for the duration of the attack.
Any network traffic the target system receives has to be examined, and then accepted or
rejected. TCP, UDP, and ICMP traffic is most commonly used, but a particular type of TCP traffic
is the most effective. TCP packets with the SYN flag are the most efficient DoS attack tool
because of how communication sessions are started between systems.
The three-way handshake
Communication sessions between systems start with establishing a TCP/IP connection. This is
a simple three step process, sometimes called a three-way handshake, initiated by the client
attempting to open the connection.
1. The client sends a TCP packet with the SYN flag set. With the SYN packet, the client informs
the server of its intention to establish a connection.
2. If the server is able to accept the connection to the client, it sends a packet with the SYN
and the ACK flags set. This simultaneously acknowledges the SYN packet the server has
received, and informs the client that the server intends to establish a connection.
3. To acknowledge receipt of the packet and establish the connection, the client sends an ACK
packet.
Figure 1: Establishing a TCP/IP connection
The three-way handshake is a simple way for the server and client to each agree to establish a
connection and acknowledge the other party expressing its intent. Unfortunately, the three-way
handshake can be used to interfere with communication rather than facilitate it.
SYN flood
When a client sends a SYN packet to a server, the server creates an entry in its session table to
keep track of the connection. The server then sends a SYN+ACK packet expecting an ACK
reply and the establishment of a connection.
An attacker intending to disrupt a server with a denial of service (DoS) attack can send a flood
of SYN packets and not respond to the SYN+ACK packets the server sends in response.
Networks can be slow and packets can get lost so the server will continue to send SYN+ACK
packets until it gives up, and removes the failed session from the session table. If an attacker
sends enough SYN packets to the server, the session table will fill completely, and further
connection attempts will be denied until the incomplete sessions time out. Until this happens,
the server is unavailable to service legitimate connection requests.
Connection initiation request: SYN
Request acknowledgement: SYN/ACK
Connection initiated: ACK
Server
Client
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Figure 2: A single client launches a SYN flood attack
SYN floods are seldom launched from a single address so limiting the number of connection
attempts from a single IP address is not usually effective.
SYN spoofing
With a flood of SYN packets coming from a single attacker, you can limit the number of
connection attempts from the source IP address or block the attacker entirely. To prevent this
simple defense from working, or to disguise the source of the attack, the attacker may spoof the
source address and use a number of IP addresses to give the appearance of a distributed
denial of service (DDoS) attack. When the server receives the spoofed SYN packets, the
SYN+ACK replies will go to the spoofed source IP addresses which will either be invalid, or the
system receiving the reply will not know what to do with it.
Figure 3: A client launches a SYN spoof attack
DDoS SYN flood
The most severe form of SYN attack is the distributed SYN flood, one variety of distributed
denial of service attack (DDoS). Like the SYN flood, the target receives a flood of SYN packets
and the ACK+SYN replies are never answered. The attack is distributed across multiple sources
sending SYN packets in a coordinated attack.
Connection initiation request: SYN
Request acknowledgement: SYN/ACK
Connection initiation request: SYN
Request acknowledgement: SYN/ACK
Connection initiation request: SYN
Request acknowledgement: SYN/ACK
Client
Server
Connection initiation request: SYN
Request acknowledgement: SYN/ACK
Connection initiation request: SYN
Request acknowledgement: SYN/ACK
Client
Server
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Figure 4: Multiple attackers launch a distributed SYN flood
The distributed SYN flood is more difficult to defend against because multiple clients are
capable of creating a larger volume of SYN packets than a single client. Even if the server can
cope, the volume of traffic may overwhelm a point in the network upstream of the targeted
server. The only defence against this is more bandwidth to prevent any choke-points.
Configuring the SYN threshold to prevent SYN floods
The preferred primary defence against any type of SYN flood is the DoS anomaly check for
tcp_syn_flood threshold. The threshold value sets an upper limit on the number of new
incomplete TCP connections allowed per second. If the number of incomplete connections
exceeds the threshold value, and the action is set to Pass, the FortiGate unit will allow the SYN
packets that exceed the threshold. If the action is set to Block, the FortiGate unit will block the
SYN packets that exceed the threshold, but it will allow SYN packets from clients that send
another SYN packet.
The tools attackers use to generate network traffic will not send a second SYN packet when a
SYN+ACK response is not received from the server. These tools will not retry. Legitimate
clients will retry when no response is received, and these retries are allowed even if they exceed
the threshold with the action set to Block.
SYN proxy
FortiGate units with network acceleration hardware, whether built-in or installed in the form of
an add-on module, offer a third action for the tcp_syn_flood threshold. Instead of Block and
Pass, you can choose to Proxy the incomplete connections that exceed the threshold value.
When the tcp_syn_flood threshold action is set to f, incomplete TCP connections are
allowed as normal as long as the configured threshold is not exceeded. If the threshold is
exceeded, the FortiGate unit will intercept incoming SYN packets from clients and respond with
a SYN+ACK packet. If the FortiGate unit receives an ACK response as expected, it will replay
this exchange to the server to establish a communication session between the client and the
server, and allow the communication to proceed.
Other flood types
UDP and ICMP packets can also be used for DoS attacks, though they are less common. TCP
SYN packets are so effective because the target receives them and maintains a session table
entry for each until they time out. Attacks using UDP or ICMP packets do not require the same
level of attention from a target, rendering them less effective. The target will usually drop the
offending packets immediately, closing the session.
Use the udp_flood and icmp_flood thresholds to defend against these DoS attacks.
Connection initiation request: SYN
Request acknowledgement: SYN/ACK
Connection initiation request: SYN
Request acknowledgement: SYN/ACK
Connection initiation request: SYN
Request acknowledgement: SYN/ACK
Server
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DoS policies
DDoS attacks vary in nature and intensity. Attacks aimed at saturating the available bandwidth
upstream of your service can only be countered by adding more bandwidth. DoS policies can
help protect against DDoS attacks that aim to overwhelm your server resources.
DoS policy recommendations
Use and configure DoS policies to appropriate levels based on your network traffic and
topology. This will help drop traffic if an abnormal amount is received.
It is important to set a good threshold. The threshold defines the maximum number of
sessions/packets per second of normal traffic. If the threshold is exceeded, the action is
triggered. Threshold defaults are general recommendations, although your network may
require very different values.
One way to find the correct values for your environment is to set the action to Pass and
enable logging. Observe the logs and adjust the threshold values until you can determine the
value at which normal traffic begins to generate attack reports. Set the threshold above this
value with the margin you want. Note that the smaller the margin, the more protected your
system will be from DoS attacks, but your system will also be more likely to generate false
alarms.
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GUI & CLI - What You May Not Know
The Graphic User Interface (GUI) is designed to be as intuitive as possible but there are always
a few things that are left out because to put all of that information on the interface would clutter
it up to the point where it wouldnt be graphical and intuitive anymore.
This section is made up of knowledge that will make working with the both of the management
interfaces easier because you wont have to find out about things like field limitations through
trial and error. Some of it has to do with changing in how navigation in the GUI has changed.
The section includes the topics:
Mouse Tricks
Changing the default column setting on the policy page
Naming Rules and Restrictions
Character Restrictions
Length of Fields Restrictions
Object Tagging and Coloring
Numeric Values
Selecting options from a list
Enabling or disabling options
To Enable or Disable Optionally Displayed Features
Mouse Tricks
In previous version of the firmware much of the navigation, editing or choosing of options in the
Web-based Manager was carried out by using the mouse in combination with a number of icons
visible on the interface. This version of the firmware makes more extensive use of the right or
secondary mouse button as well as the drag and drop feature. If you are used to the old
Web-based Manager interface you will notice that a number of the options at the top of the
display window are not there anymore or there are fewer of them.
To get a feel for the new approach the Policy > Policy > Policy window is a noticeable place to
see some of these changes in action.
The different view modes are still in the upper right-hand corner as they were before but now
there is no column settings link to move or configure the columns of the window. Now if you
wish to reposition a column just use the mouse to click on the column heading and drag it to its
new position. If you wish to add a new column just right-click on one of the column headings
and a drop down menu will appear with the option Column Settings. Use the right pointing
triangle to expand the Column Settings option to see a choice of possible columns for the
window you are in. Those already selected will be at the top with a checked box and the
available new ones will be at the bottom ready to be selected.
Rather than having a link to initiate a move in the positioning of policies in the sequence, you
can select a policy and hold down the mouse button and drag it to its new position.
By right or secondary clicking the mouse curser in the cells of the Policy window you will get a
drop down menu that is contextual to the column and policy row where you made the clck.For
example if you right click in the Schedule column for the row that is for policy #5 you will get
the option to select a schedule for policy #5 along with a number of other configuration options
relating to that policy or its position in the sequence of policies.
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You will find this approach used much more frequently through out the Web-based Manager,
giving it a more modern and intuitive feel once you learn to use the right mouse button rather
than finding a link displayed on the page.
Changing the default column setting on the policy page
The Policy > Policy > Policy window is one of the more important ones in the Web based
interface and has the capacity to display a lot of information, but displaying all of that
information at the same time makes for a very busy screen. If all of the columns are displayed,
depending on the screen size you may have to constantly use the scroll bars to see what you
need to look at. The default installation shows some of the more commonly used columns but
these list may not consist of the columns that you wish to look at or the order that you wish to
view them in. For this reason it is possible, through the CLI to override these settings to
establish a new default.
The syntax of the command starts with:
config system settings
set gui-default-policy-columns
The rest of the command is a space delimited list that depends on the columns you wish to view
and the order you wish to view them in. The possible selection is in the following table.
Variable Name Column Heading
# Sequence Number
policyid Policy ID
srcintf Source Interface
dstintf Destination Interface
srcaddr Source Addresses
dstaddr Destination Addresses
schedule Policy Schedule
service Policy Services
action Policy Action
logtraffic Traffic Logging Status
nat Policy NAT Status
status Policy Status
authentication Authentication Groups
count Policy Traffic Counter
profile Security Profiles
vpntunnel VPN Tunnel
comments Policy Comment
Table 6: Variables for the gui-default-policy-columns command
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Example:
If you wanted these columns in this order, Policy ID, Source Addresses, Destination Addresses,
Security Profiles, Policy Comment. You would enter the command:
config system settings
set gui-default-policy-columns policyid srcaddr dstaddr profile
comments
Naming Rules and Restrictions
The following are the specific rules that are obeyed by the FortiGate.
Duplicate Name Issues:
A VLAN cannot have the same name as a physical interface.
An Address must not have the same name as an Address Group.
An Address or Address Group must not have the same name as a Virtual IP Address.
A Service cannot have the same name as a Service Group.
A VLAN must not have the same name as a VDOM.
A VLAN or VDOM must not have the same name as a Zone.
Character Restrictions
A name can contain numbers (0-9), uppercase and lowercase letters (A-Z, a-z), spaces, and the
special characters - and _. Other characters are not allowed
The special characters < > ( ) # " ' are allowed only in the following fields:
Passwords
Replacement message
Firewall policy description
IPS customized signature
Antivirus blocked file pattern
Web Filter banned word
Spam filter banned word
interface PPPoE client user name
modem dialup account user name
modem dialup telephone number
Try to make each firewall object name as unique as possible so that it cannot be confused with
another object.
Where you would normally be tempted to use spaces in a name try using the "-" or "_". There
are a few name fields were it is not an issue but most of them will trigger serious and
unpredictable issues if there is a space in the name field of the object.
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Length of Fields Restrictions
Most name fields accept 35 characters. The exceptions are:
Field Characters allowed
VDOM names 12
VLAN name 15
RADIUS server secret 15
LDAP server common name identifier 15
Admin user password 32
Schedule names 32
Local certificate email 60
Modem dialup account user name, password, phone number fields 63
Firewall policy comments 63
RADIUS, LDAP server domain name 63
IPSec phase 1 local/peer ID 63
IPS custom signature name 63
Spam Filter MIME header name 63
Antivirus file block pattern 63
Local certificate organizational unit, organization, locality,
state/province fields
127
IPSec phase 1 pre-shared key or certificate name 127
Web Filter banned word, URL, URL exempt, Pattern fields 127
Spam Filter RBL server name, email address, MIME header body 127
LDAP server distinguished name 128
IPS custom signature 511
Replacement message 1024
Numeric Values
Numeric values are used to configure various sizes, rates, numeric addresses, or other numeric
values. For example, a static routing priority of 10, a port number of 8080, or an IP address of
10.10.10.1. Numeric values can be entered as a series of digits without spaces or commas (for
example, 10 or 64400), in dotted decimal format (for example the IP address 10.10.10.1) or as in
the case of MAC or IPv6 addresses separated by colons (for example, the MAC address
Table 7: Characters allowed in some fields
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00:09:0F:B7:37:00). Most numeric values are standard base-10 numbers, but some fields (again
such as MAC addresses) require hexadecimal numbers.
Most web-based manager numeric value fields make it easy to add the acceptable number of
digits within the allowed range. CLI help includes information about allowed numeric value
ranges. Both the web-based manager and the CLI prevent you from entering invalid numbers.
Selecting options from a list
If a configuration field can only contain one of a number of selected options, the web-based
manager and CLI present you a list of acceptable options and you can select one from the list.
No other input is allowed. From the CLI you must spell the selection name correctly.
Enabling or disabling options
If a configuration field can only be on or off (enabled or disabled) the web-based manager
presents a check box or other control that can only be enabled or disabled. From the CLI you
can set the option to enable or disable.
To Enable or Disable Optionally Displayed Features
There are a number of features in the web-based manager that can be configured to either be
displayed if you are likely to use them or disabled if you have no need to see them. The ones
that may be relevant to the function of the Firewall are:
Central NAT Table
Dynamic Profile
Explicit Proxy
Implicit Firewall Policies
IPv6
Load Balance
Local In Policy
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You can enable or disable these features by going to System > Admin > Settings or by using the
following CLI options:
config system global
set gui-ap-profile {disable | enable}
set gui-central-nat-table {disable | enable}
set gui-dns-database {disable | enable}
set gui-dynamic-profile-display {disable | enable}
set gui-icap {disable | enable}
set gui-implicit-id-based-policy {disable | enable}
set gui-implicit-policy {disable | enable}
set gui-ipsec-manual-key {enable | disable}
set gui-ipv6 {enable | disable}
set gui-lines-per-page <gui_lines>
set gui-load-balance {disable | enable}
set gui-object-tags {disable | enable}
set gui-policy-interface-pairs-view {enable | disable}
set gui-voip-profile {disable | enable}
end
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Building firewall objects and policies
The other chapters in the Firewall book have so far been concerned primarily with concepts and
abstract ideas that are designed you help you understand what is going on with the firewall and
what it can do. Now that we have a good grounding in the what it is time to get into the how.
This section will provide the instructions for the web-based manager (when available) and the
CLI for adding and or editing FortiGate firewall objects and then how to put them together when
building a policy to govern the traffic flowing through your network. To give some context,
scenarios have been included. The instructions here are concerned with the creation of the
objects. The inclusion of these objects into firewall policies is not shown in these instructions.
This chapter includes the instructions for building the following:
IPv4 Firewall Addresses
IPv6 Firewall Addresses
FQDN address
Changing the TTL of a FQDN address
New Geography-based Address
IPv4 Address Group
IPv4 Address Group
IPv6 Address Group
Multicast Address
Service Category
TCP/UDP/SCTP Service
ICMP Service
ICMPv6 Service
Service Group
Virtual IP address
IP Pool
Central NAT Table
Firewall Schedule - Recurring
Firewall Schedule - One-time
Schedule Group
Proxy Option
DoS Policy
DoS Policy
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IPv4 Firewall Addresses
Scenario: Mail Server
You need to create an IPv4 address for the Mail Server on Port1 of your internal network.
These server is on the network off of port1.
The IP address is 192.168.1.27
The subnet mask is 255.255.255.0
There should be a tag for this address being for a server
Go to Policy & Objects> Objects > Addresses and select Create New > Address.
Fill out the fields with the following information
Category Address
Name Mail_Server
Type Subnet / IP Range
Subnet / IP Range 192.168.1.27/255.255.255.0
Interface port1
Visibility <enabled>
Comments <add any additional discription>
:
Select OK.
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall address
edit Mail_Server
set type ipmask
set subnet 192.168.1.27 255.255.255.255
set associated-interface port1
end
Scenario: First Floor Network
You need to create an IPv4 address for the subnet of the internal network off of Port1.
These computers are on the network off of port1.
The subnet is the range from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.255.
The subnet mask is 255.255.255.0
There should be a reference to this being the network for the 1st floor of the building.
Go to Policy & Objects> Objects > Addresses and select Create New > Address.
Fill out the fields with the following information
Category Address
Name Internal_Subnet_1
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Select OK.
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall address
edit Internal_Subnet_1
Set comment Network for 1st Floor
set type ipmask
set subnet 192.168.1.0/24
set associated-interface port1
end
Scenario: Marketing Department
You need to create an IPv4 address for the address range for a group of computers used by the
Marketing Department.
These computers are on the network off of port1.
The IP addresses for these computers range from 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.115
Go to Policy & Objects> Objects > Addresses and select Create New > Address.
Fill out the fields with the following information
Category Address
Name Marketing_computers
Type IP Range
Subnet / IP Range 192.168.1.100-192.168.1.115
Interface port1
Visibility <enable>
Comments <Input into this field is optional>
Select OK.
Type Subnet
Subnet / IP Range 192.168.1.0/24
Interface port1
visibility <enabled>
Comments Network for 1st Floor
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Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall address
edit Internal_Subnet_1
set type iprange
set start-ip 192.168.1.100
set end-ip 192.168.1.115
set associated-interface port1
end
Verification
To verify that the addresses were added correctly:
Go to Policy & Objects> Objects > Addresses. Check that the addresses have been added to
the address list and that they are correct.
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall address
edit <the name of the address to verify>
show full-configuration
IPv6 Firewall Addresses
Scenario: Mail Server
You need to create an IPv6 address for the Mail Server on Port1 of your internal network.
These server is on the network off of port1.
The IP address is 2001:db8:0:2::20/64
There should be a tag for this address being for a server
Go to Policy & Objects> Objects > Addresses and select Create New > Address.
Fill out the fields with the following information
Category IPv6 Address
Name Mail_Server
Type Subnet
Subnet / IP Range 2001:db8:0:2::20/64
Interface port1
Visibility <enable>
Comments <Input into this field is optional>
Select OK.
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Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall address6
edit Mail_Server
set type ipmask
set subnet 2001:db8:0:2::20/64
set associated-interface port1
end
Scenario: First Floor Network
You need to create an IPv4 address for the subnet of the internal network off of Port1.
These computers are on the network off of port1.
The Network uses the IPv6 addresses: fdde:5a7d:f40b:2e9d:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx
There should be a reference to this being the network for the 1st floor of the building.
Go to Policy & Objects> Objects > Addresses and select Create New > Address.
Fill out the fields with the following information
Category IPv6 Address
Name Internal_Subnet_1
Type Subnet
Subnet / IP Range 2001:db8:0:2::/64
Interface port1
Visibility <enable>
Comments Network for 1st Floor
Select OK.
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall address6
edit Internal_Subnet_1
Set comment Network for 1st Floor
set subnet 2001:db8:0:2::/64
end
Verification
To verify that the addresses were added correctly:
Go to Policy & Objects> Objects > Addresses. Check that the addresses have been added to
the address list and that they are correct.
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Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall address6
edit <the name of the address that you wish to verify>
Show full-configuration
FQDN address
You have to great a policy that will govern traffic that goes to a site that has a number of servers
on the Internet. Depending on the traffic or the possibility that one of the servers is down
network traffic can go to any one of those sites. The consistent factor is that they all use the
same Fully Qualified Domain Name.
The FQDN of the web site: example.com
The number of ISP connections off of the FortiGate firewall: 2
Go to Policy & Objects> Objects > Addresses and select Create New > Address.
Fill out the fields with the following information
Category Address
Name BigWebsite.com
Type FQDN
FQDN bigwebsite.com
Interface any
Visibility <enable>
Comments <Input into this field is optional>
Select OK.
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall address
edit BigWebsite.com
set type fqdn
set associated-interface any
set fqdn bigwebsite.com
end
Verification
To verify that the addresses were added correctly:
Go to Firewall Objects > Address > Addresses. Check that the addresses have been added to
the address list and that they are correct.
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall address
edit <the name of the address that you wish to verify>
Show full-configuration
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Changing the TTL of a FQDN address
To make sure that the FQDN resolves to the most recent active server you have been asked to
make sure that the FortiGate has not cached the address for any longer than 10 minutes.
There is no field for the cached time-to-live in the web-based manager. It is only configurable in
the CLI. Enter the following commands:
config firewall address
edit BigWebsite.com
set cache-ttl 600
end
New Geography-based Address
Your company is US based and has information on its web site that may be considered
information that is not allowed to be sent to embargoed countries. In an effort to help reduce the
possibility of sensitive information going to those countries you have be asked to set up
addresses for those countries so that they can be block in the firewall policies.
One of the countries you have been asked to block is Cuba
You have been asked to comment the addresses so that other administrators will know why
they have been created
Go to Policy & Objects> Objects > Addresses and select Create New > Address.
Fill out the fields with the following information
Category Address
Name Cuba
Type Geography
Country Cuba
Interface any
Visibility <enable>
Comments Embargoed
Select OK.
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall address
edit Cuba
set type geography
set country CN
set interface wan1
end
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IPv4 Address Group
Your company has a small division that is in Denmark that has a number of remote users that
need to connect to a resource from either home, office or customer sites. The thing that they
have in common is that there are all in Denmark. An address group needs to be created that will
allow for this.
The preconfigured addresses to use will consist of:
Denmark - a geography based address
Denmark_ISP1 - a IP range of address of an ISP that services Denmark
Denmark_ISP2 - a IP range of address of another ISP that services Denmark
Denmark_Division - the FQDN of the Denmark office that uses Dynamic DNS
Go to Policy & Objects> Objects > Addresses and select Create New > Address Group.
Fill out the fields with the following information
Type IPv4 Group
Group Name Denmark_Users
Show in Address
List
<enable>
Members Denmark
Denmark_ISP1
Denmark_ISP2
Denmark_Division
Comments <Input into this field is optional>
Select OK.
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall addrgrp
edit Denmark_Users
set member Denmark Denmark_ISP1 Denmark_ISP2 Denmark_Division
end
To verify that the addresses were added correctly:
Go to Policy & Objects> Objects > Addresses. Check that the addresses have been added to
the address list and that they are correct.
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall addgrp
edit <the name of the address that you wish to verify>
Show full-configuration
If you need to edit out a member of an address group in the CLI you need to
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IPv6 Address Group
Create IPv6 address groups from existing IPv6 addresses
Your company has 3 internal servers with IPv6 addresses that it would like to group together for
the purposes of a number of policies.
The preconfigured addresses to use will consist of:
Web_Server-1
Web_Server-2
Web_Server-3
Go to Policy & Objects> Objects > Addresses and select Create New > Address Group.
Fill out the fields with the following information
Type IPv6 Group
Group Name Web_Server_Cluster
Show in Address
List
<enable>
Members Web_Server-1
Web_Server-2
Web_Server-3
Comments <Input into this field is optional>
Select OK.
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall addrgrp6
edit Web_Server_Cluster
set member Web_Server-1 Web_Server-2 Web_Server-3
end
To verify that the addresses were added correctly:
Go to Policy & Objects> Objects > Addresses. Check that the addresses have been added to
the address list and that they are correct.
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall addgrp6
edit <the name of the address that you wish to verify>
Show full-configuration
Multicast Address
The company has a large high tech campus that has monitors in many of its meeting rooms. It is
common practice for company wide notifications of importance to be done in a streaming video
format with the CEO of the company addressing everyone at once. The video is High Definition
quality so takes up a lot of bandwidth. To minimize the impact on the network the network
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administrators have set things up to allow the use of multicasting to the monitors for these
notifications. Now it has to be set up on the FortiGate firewall to allow the traffic.
The range being used for the multicast is 239.5.0.0 to 239.5.255.255
The interface on this FortiGate firewall will be on port 4
Go to Policy & Objects> Objects > Addresses and select Create New > Address.
Fill out the fields with the following information
Category Multicast Address
Name Meeting_Room_Displays
Type Multicast IP Range
Multicast IP Range 239.5.0.0-239.5.255.255
Interface port4
Visibility <enable>
Comments <Input into this field is optional>
Select OK.
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall multicast-address
edit "meeting_room_display"
set associated-interface "port9"
set start-ip 239.5.0.0
set end-ip 239.5.255.255
set visibility enable
next
end
To verify that the address range was added correctly:
Go to Policy & Objects> Objects > Addresses. Check that the addresses have been added to
the address list and that they are correct.
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall multicast-address
edit <the name of the address that you wish to verify>
Show full-configuration
Service Category
Add a new category to the list of Service Categories
You plan on adding a number of devices such as web cameras that will allow the monitoring of
the physical security of your datacenter. A number of non-standard services will have to be
created and you would like to keep them grouped together under the heading of Surveillance
Go to Policy & Objects > Objects > Services and select Create New > Category.
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Fill out the fields with the following information
Name Surveillance
Comments For DataCenter Surveillance Devices
Select OK.
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall service category
Edit Surveillance
Set comment For DataCenter Surveillance Devices
end
To verify that the category was added correctly:
Go to Policy & Objects > Objects > Services. Select the Category Settings icon . A listing of the
categories should be displayed.
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall service category
show
This should bring up all of the categories. Check to see that the new one is displayed.
TCP/UDP/SCTP Service
To create and configure a TCP/UDP/STCP protocol type service.
You have set up some new web cams at work that send a constant live feed to a security
service. Not only do these cameras have a feed that can be sent offsite they can be remotely
managed from a browser or an application.
The ports that need to be opened to use all of the features of the web cams are:
Management by browser - TCP on port 8000
Real time video feed - UDP on port 4000
Connection through vendor application - SCTP on port 1600
The IP address of the offsite service is 256.25.56.12 (Not a valid IP address. Used for example
only)
One service will be needed for the incoming connections
One service will be needed for the outgoing connections
The IT manager would like the service for the outgoing data stream to be tied to the destination
of the Surveillance service site so that service can only be used for that one vendor.
To add the incoming service
Go to Policy & Objects > Objects > Services and select Create New > Service.
Fill out the fields with the following information
Name WebCam_Connection-incoming
Comments <Input into this field is optional>
Service Type Firewall
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Select OK.
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall service custom
edit WebCam_Connection-incoming
Set protocol TCP/UDP/SCTP
Set tcp-portrange 8000
Set sctp-portrange 16000
Set visibility enable
end
To add the outgoing service
Go to Policy & Objects > Objects > Services and select Create New > Service.
Fill out the fields with the following information
Name WebCam_Connection-outgoing
Comments <Input into this field is optional>
Service Type Firewall
Color <Changing this value is optional>
Show in Service List Check in check box
Category Surveillance
Protocol Type TCP/UDP/SCTP
IP/FQDN 256.25.56.12
Show in Service List Check in check box
Category Surveillance
Protocol Type TCP/UDP/SCTP
IP/FQDN <Leave blank>
Protocol
Destination Port Source Port
Low High Low High
TCP 8000 8000 1 65535
SCTP 16000 16000 1 65535
The source port range can be left black as the default is 1 to 65635.
Protocol
Destination Port Source Port
Low High Low High
TCP 4000 4000 1 65535
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Select OK.
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall service custom
edit WebCam_Connection-incoming
Set protocol TCP/UDP/SCTP
Set category Surveillance
Set udp-portrange 4000
Set iprange 256.25.56.12
Set visibility enable
end
To verify that the category was added correctly:
Go to Policy & Objects > Objects > Services. Check that the services have been added to the
service list and that they are correct.
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall service custom
edit <the name of the service that you wish to verify>
Show full-configuration
This should bring up all of the details of the service.
ICMP Service
The Security Officer would like to block the use of the traceroute utility through the network. The
IT manager insists that ping and other ICMP utility must be allows for the task of diagnosing
connectivity, so it is agreed that only traceroute functionality will be blocked.
The ICMP type for traceroute is 30. There is no codes with the type.
Web-based Manager Instructions
Go to Policy & Objects > Objects > Services and select Create New > Service.
Fill out the fields with the following information
Name traceroute
Comments <Input into this field is optional>
Service Type Firewall
Show in Service List Check in check box
Category Uncategorized
Protocol Type ICMP
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Select OK.
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall service custom
edit traceroute
set protocol ICMP
set icmptype 30
set visibility enable
end
To verify that the category was added correctly:
Go to Policy & Objects > Objects > Services. Check that the services have been added to the
services list and that they are correct.
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall service custom
edit <the name of the service that you wish to verify>
show full-configuration
ICMPv6 Service
The IT Manager is doing some diagnostics and would like to temporarily block the successful
replies of ICMP Node information Responses between 2 IPv6 networks.
The ICMP type for ICMP Node informations responses is 140. The codes for a successful
response is 0.
Web-based Manager Instructions
Go to Policy & Objects > Objects > Services and select Create New > Service.
Fill out the fields with the following information
Name diagnostic-test1
Comments <Input into this field is optional>
Service Type Firewall
Show in Service List Check in check box
Category Uncategorized
Protocol Type ICMP6
Type 140
Code 0
Select OK.
Type 30
Code <Leave blank>
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Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall service custom
edit diagnostic-test1
set protocol ICMP6
set icmptype 140
set icmpcode 0
set visibility enable
end
To verify that the category was added correctly:
Go to Policy & Objects > Objects > Services. Check that the services have been added to the
services list and that they are correct.
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall service custom
edit <the name of the service that you wish to verify>
show full-configuration
Service Group
The company provide email services for a number of different companies. They have a
standard list of services that they like to keep open to their customer's email servers,
including webmail services. The company prides itself on getting a customer up and
going the same day so they use standard templates for everything to make sure nothing
is forgotten including the services that are available.
The services include:
IMAP
IMAPS
POP3
POP3S
SMTP
SMTPS
HTTP
HTTPS
Email_Admin - a custom service for administration of the servers
Go to Policy & Objects > Objects > Services and select Create New > Service Group.
Fill out the fields with the following information:
Group Name Cust_Email_Serv_Template
Comments (Optional)
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Select OK.
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall service group
edit Cust_Email_Serv_Template
set member IMAP IMAPS POP3 POP3S SMTP SMTPS HTTP
HTTPS Email_Admin
next
end
To verify that the category was added correctly:
Go to Policy & Objects > Objects > Services. Check that the service group has been added to
the services list and that it is correct.
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall service group
edit <the name of the service that you wish to verify>
show full-configuration
Virtual IP address
The company has an web server on the internal network that needs to be accessed from the
Internet.
The internal IP address is 192.168.50.37
The external IP address is 256.85.94.60 (for example use only. Not a valid IP address)
The external IP address is assigned by ISP "A" on WAN1
The port that needs to be mapped is 80
Go to Policy & Objects > Objects> Virtual IPs and select Create New.
Fill out the fields with the following information.
Type Firewall
Members (click to add...choose from the drop down
IMAP
IMAPS
POP3
POP3S
SMTP
SMTPS
HTTP
HTTPS
Email_Admin
VIP Type IPv4
Name Web1-VIP
Comments Virtual IP for the Forum Webserver
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Select OK.
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall vip
edit Web1-VIP
set comment Virtual IP for the Forum Webserver
set extintf wan1
set extip 256.85.94.60
set mappedip 192.168.50.37
set portforward enable
set protocol tcp
set extport 80
set mapped port 80
end
end
To verify that the category was added correctly:
Go to Policy & Objects > Objects> Virtual IPs. Check that the virtual IP address has been added
to the list and that it is correct.
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall vip
edit <the name of the vip that you wish to verify>
show full-configuration
Interface wan1
Type (This field is only changeable in the CLI)
Source Address
Filter
<disabled>
External IP
Address/Range
256.85.94.60
Mapped IP
Address/Range
192.168.50.37
Port Forwarding <enabled>
Protocol TCP
External Service
Port
80
Map to Port 80
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VIP Group
The company has only a single external IP address but multiple servers with different functions
running on its internal LAN that need to be accessed from the Internet.
The external IP address of the company on wan1 is 256.34.56.149 (for example use only.
Not a valid IP address)
The webserver is on the internal LAN on 192.168.100.86
The webserver needs to answer on ports 80 443
The administration of the FortiGate firewall connects on port 4443 instead of 443
There is are also a separate email server, FTP server, and Terminal Server for specialised
applications.
2 Virtual IPs have been created to map 256.34.56.149 to 192.168.100.86 on ports 80 and
443. The names are webserver_80 and webserver_443 respectively.
Go to Policy & Objects > Objects> Virtual IPs and select Create New > Virtual IP Group.
Fill out the fields with the following information.
Type IPv4 VIP Group
Name WebServer_Grp
Comments (Optional)
Interface wan1
Members webserver_80
webserver_443
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall vipgrp
edit WebServer_Grp
set member webserver_80 webserver_443
next
end
To verify that the category was added correctly:
Go to Policy & Objects > Objects > Virtual IPs. Check that the virtual IP address group has been
added to the list and that it is correct.
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall vipgrp
edit <the name of the vip that you wish to verify>
show full-configuration
IP Pool
Your company has an application server on the internal network that sends out regular data
updates to an offsite service. In order to make the service site more secure, they only accept
connections from predefined IP address. If the external IP address of the FortiGate firewall
interface were used that would mean that the service would be accepting sessions from just
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about any user in the network so a separate IP address need so be assigned for the Network
Address Translation.
The external address that will be used is one that has been assigned to the company by the
ISP on WAN2
The address is 256.100.42.129 (for example use only. Not a valid IP address)
Note: the ARP interface cannot be set in the Web-based Manager but as this is the only path
that the traffic will be coming from the outside this should not be an issue. The setting has been
included in the CLI instructions so that you will now how to set it in a situation where you want
the ARP replies to be answered only on a specific interface.
Go to Policy & Objects > Objects > IP Pools.
Fill out the fields with the following information:
IP Pool Type IPv4 Pool
Name App_Server1
Comments Addresses assignment for this server only.
Type One-to-One
External IP Range 256.100.42.129
ARP Reply <enabled>
Select OK
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall ippool
edit App_Server1
set comments ''Addresses assignment for this server only."
set type one-to-one
set arp-reply enable
set arp-intf wan2
set startip 256.100.42.129
set endip 256.100.42.129
end
To verify that the category was added correctly:
Go to Policy & Objects > Objects > IP Pools.
Check that the IP Pool has been added to the list of IP Pools and that the listed settings are
correct.
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall ippool
edit <the name of the IP Pool you wish to verify>
show full-configuration
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Central NAT Table
The company has a server on the Development LAN that needs to communicate with a server at
a remote site over the Internet. One of the restrictions on the communications between these
systems is that the IP address and source port must be specific.
The traffic going out on to the Internet must be NATed
The traffic is coming from a server with the IP address 192.168.150.86
An address called app-server has been created for the address 192.168.150.86 on the
port1 interface
The external interface must be 256.23.45.67
An address called "app-server-ext" has been created for the address 256.23.45.67 on the
wan1 interface
The originating traffic from the server originates in the port range from 2000 to 3000
The remote site requires that the source TCP port must be within the 12000 to 13000 range
The original address and Translated Address fields require values that are address names that
are listed in the address section of Firewall Objects.
Go to Policy & Objects > Policy > Central NAT > Create New
Fill out the fields with the following information:
Source Address app-server
Translated Address app-server-ext
Original Source Port 2000
Translated Port 12000-13000
Select OK
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall central-nat
edit 0
set orig-addr app-server
set nat-ippool app-server-ext
set orig-port 2000
set nat-port 12000-13000
next
end
To verify that the table was added correctly:
Go to Policy & Objects > Policy > Central NAT.
Check that the table has been added to the list of Central NAT Tables and that the listed settings
are correct.
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall central-nat
show full-configuration
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Verify that the listing of tables includes the one that you have just configured, with the correct
settings.
When configuring the Central NAT in the GUI you may notice that only those addresses which
have been configured to be associated with any interface are displayed in the drop down menu
for choosing a Source Address and yet the CLI will allow any address to be used, not just those
associated with any interface. This is because by default the policies in the GUI use a function
of cross referencing which addresses are allowed based on which interface is involved in the
policy.When combined with the aspect of Central NAT that doesnt restrict to a specific
interface. This means the only addresses will be allowed are those associated with the any
interface. The CLI does not have this cross referencing function which is why the CLI seems
less restrictive. However, more care must be taken when using the CLI to make sure that
appropriate addresses are used.
Firewall Schedule - Recurring
The Company wants to allow the use of Facebook by employees, but only during none
business hours and the lunch break.
The business hours are 9:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
The Lunch break is 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
The plan is to create a schedule to cover the morning business hours and the afternoon
business hours and block access to the Facebook web site during that time.
Go to Policy & Objects > Objects > Schedule. Then select Create New > Schedule.
Fill out the fields with the following information:
Type Recurring
Name Morning_Business_Hours
Days Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Start Time Hour = 9, Minute = 0
Stop Time Hour = 12, Minute = 0
Select OK
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall schedule recurring
edit Morning_Business_Hours
set day monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday
set start 09:00
set end 12:00
end
Create a second new schedule.
Type Recurring
Name Afternoon_Business_Hours
Days Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
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Select OK
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall schedule recurring
edit Afternoon_Business_Hours
set day monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday
set start 13:00
set end 18:00
end
To verify that the schedule was added correctly:
Go to Policy & Objects > Objects > Schedule
Check that the schedule with the name you used has been added to the list of recurring
schedules and that the listed settings are correct.
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall schedule recurring
edit <the name of the schedule you wish to verify>
show full-configuration
Firewall Schedule - One-time
The company wants to change over their web site image to reference the new year. They have
decided to take this opportunity to do some hardware upgrades as well. Their web site is
business oriented so they have determined that over New Years Eve there will be very limited
traffic.
They are going to need a maintenance window of 2 hours bracketing midnight on New Years
Eve.
Go to Policy & Objects > Objects > Schedule. Then select Create New > Schedule.
Fill out the fields with the following information:
Type One-time
Name NewYearsEve_Maintenance
Start Date 2014/12/31 <use the built in calendar>
End Date 2015/01/01 <use the built in calendar>
Start Time Hour: 23, Minute: 0
Stop Time Hour: 1Minute: 0
Pre-expiration event
log
<disable>
Select OK
Start Time Hour = 13, Minute = 0
Stop Time Hour = 18, Minute = 0
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Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall schedule onetime
edit maintenance_window
set start 23:00 2012/12/31
set end 01:00 2013/01/01
next
end
To verify that the schedule was added correctly:
Go to Policy & Objects > Objects > Schedule
Check that the schedule with the name you used has been added to the list of recurring
schedules and that the listed settings are correct.
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall schedule onetime
edit <the name of the schedule you wish to verify>
show full-configuration
Schedule Group
In order to make the administration of the policies easier a group needs to be created.
Go to Policy & Objects > Objects > Schedule. Then select Create New > Schedule Group.
Fill out the fields with the following information:
Name Business_Hours
Members Morning_Business_Hours
Afternoon_Business_Hours
Select OK
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall service group
edit Business_Hours
set member Morning_Business_Hours Afternoon_Business _ours
end
To verify that the schedule was added correctly:
Go to Policy & Objects > Objects > Schedule.
Check that the schedule group with the name you used has been added to the list of schedule
groups.
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall service group
edit <the name of the schedule group you wish to verify>
show full-configuration
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Proxy Option
The company will be using a number of the Security Profiles features on various policies but
wants to use as few profiles as possible to make administration simpler. The decision has been
made to have two profiles, the default one and a single customized one that will be a
combination of the settings required to cover the situations that will not be covered by the
default profile.
The company profile will have the following parameters:
There are no FTP servers running on the site so there is no need for FTP.
The company has a non-standard IMAP implementation the uses port 1143.
The Comfort Clients is to be used with a ratio of 1 byte for every 15 seconds.
There is a lot of varied email traffic so there is to be no blocking of emails due to size beyond
the settings on the mail servers.
Go to Policy & Objects > Policy > Proxy Options.
Create a new profile
Fill out the fields with the following information:
Name example_standard
Comments <optional>
Log Oversized Files <disabled>
Protocol Port Mapping:
Enable Protocol Inspection Ports
enabled HTTP Specify and <leave on default setting.>
enabled SMTP Specify and <leave on default setting.>
enabled POP3 Specify and <leave on default setting.>
enabled IMAP Specify and 1143
not enabled FTP
enabled NNTP Specify and <leave on default setting.>
enabled MAPI <leave on default setting.>
enabled DNS <leave on default setting.>
Common Options
Comfort Clients enabled
Interval (Seconds) 15
Amount(bytes) 1
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Web Options
Enabled Chunked
Bypass
not enabled
Add Fortinet Bar not enabled
Communication Port <Unseen because Add Fortinet Bar is not enabled>
Email Options
Allow Fragmented Messages <not enabled>
Append Signature (SMTP) <not enabled>
Email Signature Text <Unseen because Append Signature is not enabled>
Block Oversized
File/Email
not enabled
Threshold(MB) not enabled
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Select OK
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall profile-protocol-options
edit example_standard
config http
set options clientcomfort no-content-summary
set comfort-interval 15
next
config ftp
set status disable
set options clientcomfort no-content-summary splice
set comfort-interval 15
next
config imap
set ports "1143"
set options fragmail no-content-summary
next
config mapi
set options fragmail no-content-summary
next
config pop3
set options fragmail no-content-summary
next
config smtp
set options fragmail no-content-summary splice
next
config nntp
set options no-content-summary splice
next
config ssh
set inspect-all enable
set log x11-filter ssh-shell exec port-forward
next
end
Oversized Files
A couple of variations on the example could have to do with the processing of oversized files at
a level other than the default setting. The ways that it can be approached are:
1. Set a non default threshold size and block the files
2. Set a non default threshold size and not scan the files over the threshold but allow them to
pass through the FortiGate firewall.
In the following instructions:
We will just use 2 MB as the new threshold.
In the CLI instructions we will limit the configuration to just the HTTP settings for the
purposes of brevity and simplicity.
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Option 1
Option 1 can be done in the GUI.
Go to Policy & Objects > Policy > Proxy Options.
Edit the profile that you wan the change in.
Fill out the fields with the following information:
Common Options
Comfort Clients enabled
Interval (Seconds) 15
Amount(bytes) 1
Block Oversized
File/Email
enabled
Threshold(MB) 2
Select OK
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall profile-protocol-options
edit example_standard
config http
set options clientcomfort no-content-summary oversize
set oversize-limit 2
set comfort-interval 15
next
end
Option 2
Option 2 can only be done in the CLI.
Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall profile-protocol-options
edit example_standard
config http
set options clientcomfort no-content-summary
set oversize-limit 2
set comfort-interval 15
next
end
DoS Policy
The company wishes to protect against Denial of Service attach. They have chosen some where
they wish to block the attacks of the incidence goes above a certain threshold and for some
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others they are just trying to get a baseline of activity for those types of attacks so they are
letting the traffic pass through without action.
The interface to the Internet is on WAN1
There is no requirement to specify which addresses are being protected or protected from.
The protection is to extend to all services.
The TCP attacks are to be blocked
The UDP, ICMP, and IP attacks are to be recorded but not blocked.
The tcp_syn_flood attachs threshold is to be changed from the default to 1000
Go to Policy & Objects > Policy > DoS.
Create a new policy
Fill out the fields with the following information:
Incoming Interface wan1
Source Address all
Destination
Addresses
all
Service ALL
Anomalies
Name Status Logging Action Threshold
tcp_syn_flood enabled enabled Block 1000
tcp_port_scan enabled enabled Block <default value>
tcp_src_session enabled enabled Block <default value>
tcp_dst_session enabled enabled Block <default value>
udp_flood enabled enabled Pass <default value>
udp_scan enabled enabled Pass <default value>
udp_src_session enabled enabled Pass <default value>
udp_dst_session enabled enabled Pass <default value>
icmp_flood enabled enabled Pass <default value>
icmp_sweep enabled enabled Pass <default value>
icmp_src_session enabled enabled Pass <default value>
icmp_dst_session enabled enabled Pass <default value>
ip_src_session enabled enabled Pass <default value>
ip_dst_session enabled enabled Pass <default value>
sctp_flood not enabled not enabled Pass <default value>
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Toggle the button next to Enable this policy to ON
Select OK
sctp_scan not enabled not enabled Pass <default value>
sctp_src_session not enabled not enabled Pass <default value>
sctp_dst_session not enabled not enabled Pass <default value>
Name Status Logging Action Threshold
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Enter the following CLI command:
config firewall DoS-policy
edit 0
set status enable
set interface ''
config anomaly
edit "tcp_syn_flood"
set status enable
set log enable
set action block
set threshold 1000
next
edit "tcp_port_scan"
set status enable
set log enable
set action block
next
edit "tcp_src_session"
set status enable
set log enable
set action block
next
edit "tcp_dst_session"
set status enable
set log enable
set action block
next
edit "udp_flood"
set status enable
set log enable
next
edit "udp_scan"
set status disable
set status enable
set log enable
next
edit "udp_src_session"
set status enable
set log enable
next
edit "udp_dst_session"
set status enable
set log enable
next
edit "icmp_flood"
set status enable
set log enable
next
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edit "icmp_sweep"
set status enable
set log enable
next
edit "icmp_src_session"
set status enable
set log enable
next
edit "icmp_dst_session"
set status enable
set log enable
next
edit "ip_src_session"
set status enable
set log enable
next
edit "ip_dst_session"
set status enable
set log enable
next
end
next
end
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Multicast forwarding
Multicasting (also called IP multicasting) consists of using a single multicast source to send
data to many receivers. Multicasting can be used to send data to many receivers
simultaneously while conserving bandwidth and reducing network traffic. Multicasting can be
used for one-way delivery of media streams to multiple receivers and for one-way data
transmission for news feeds, financial information, and so on.
Also RIPv2 uses multicasting to share routing table information, OSPF uses multicasting to
send hello packets and routing updates, Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP)
uses multicasting to send routing information to all EIGRP routers on a network segment and
the Bonjour network service uses multicasting for DNS.
A FortiGate unit can operate as a Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) version 2 router.
FortiGate units support PIM sparse mode (RFC 4601) and PIM dense mode (RFC 3973) and can
service multicast servers or receivers on the network segment to which a FortiGate unit
interface is connected. Multicast routing is not supported in transparent mode (TP mode).
To support PIM communications, the sending/receiving applications and all connecting PIM
routers in between must be enabled with PIM version 2. PIM can use static routes, RIP, OSPF,
or BGP to forward multicast packets to their destinations. To enable source-to-destination
packet delivery, either sparse mode or dense mode must be enabled on the PIM-router
interfaces. Sparse mode routers cannot send multicast messages to dense mode routers. In
addition, if a FortiGate unit is located between a source and a PIM router, two PIM routers, or is
connected directly to a receiver, you must create a security policy manually to pass
encapsulated (multicast) packets or decapsulated data (IP traffic) between the source and
destination.
A PIM domain is a logical area comprising a number of contiguous networks. The domain
contains at least one Boot Strap Router (BSR), and if sparse mode is enabled, a number of
Rendezvous Points (RPs) and Designated Routers (DRs). When PIM is enabled on a FortiGate
unit, the FortiGate unit can perform any of these functions at any time as configured.
Sparse mode
Initially, all candidate BSRs in a PIM domain exchange bootstrap messages to select one BSR
to which each RP sends the multicast address or addresses of the multicast group(s) that it can
service. The selected BSR chooses one RP per multicast group and makes this information
available to all of the PIM routers in the domain through bootstrap messages. PIM routers use
the information to build packet distribution trees, which map each multicast group to a specific
RP. Packet distribution trees may also contain information about the sources and receivers
associated with particular multicast groups.
When a FortiGate unit interface is configured as a multicast interface, sparse mode is enabled
on it by default to ensure that distribution trees are not built unless at least one downstream
receiver requests multicast traffic from a specific source. If the sources of multicast traffic and
their receivers are close to each other and the PIM domain contains a dense population of
active receivers, you may choose to enable dense mode throughout the PIM domain instead.
An RP represents the root of a non-source-specific distribution tree to a multicast group. By
joining and pruning the information contained in distribution trees, a single stream of multicast
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packets (for example, a video feed) originating from the source can be forwarded to a certain
RP to reach a multicast destination.
Each PIM router maintains a Multicast Routing Information Base (MRIB) that determines to
which neighboring PIM router join and prune messages are sent. An MRIB contains
reverse-path information that reveals the path of a multicast packet from its source to the PIM
router that maintains the MRIB.
To send multicast traffic, a server application sends IP traffic to a multicast group address. The
locally elected DR registers the sender with the RP that is associated with the target multicast
group. The RP uses its MRIB to forward a single stream of IP packets from the source to the
members of the multicast group. The IP packets are replicated only when necessary to
distribute the data to branches of the RPs distribution tree.
To receive multicast traffic, a client application can use Internet Group Management Protocol
(IGMP) version 1 (RFC 1112), 2 (RFC 2236), or 3 (RFC 3376) control messages to request the
traffic for a particular multicast group. The locally elected DR receives the request and adds the
host to the multicast group that is associated with the connected network segment by sending
a join message towards the RP for the group. Afterward, the DR queries the hosts on the
connected network segment continually to determine whether the hosts are active. When the
DR no longer receives confirmation that at least one member of the multicast group is still
active, the DR sends a prune message towards the RP for the group.
FortiOS supports PIM sparse mode multicast routing for IPv6 multicast (multicast6) traffic and is
compliant with RFC 4601: Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM). You can
use the following command to configure IPv6 PIM sparse multicast routing.
config router multicast6
set multicast-routing {enable | disable}
config interface
edit <interface-name>
set hello-interval <1-65535 seconds>
set hello-holdtime <1-65535 seconds>
end
config pim-sm-global
config rp-address
edit <index>
set ipv6-address <ipv6-address>
end
The following diagnose commands for IPv6 PIM sparse mode are also available:
diagnose ipv6 multicast status
diagnose ipv6 multicast vif
diagnose ipv6 multicast mroute
Dense mode
The packet organization used in sparse mode is also used in dense mode. When a multicast
source begins to send IP traffic and dense mode is enabled, the closest PIM router registers the
IP traffic from the multicast source (S) and forwards multicast packets to the multicast group
address (G). All PIM routers initially broadcast the multicast packets throughout the PIM domain
to ensure that all receivers that have requested traffic for multicast group address G can access
the information if needed.
To forward multicast packets to specific destinations afterward, the PIM routers build
distribution trees based on the information in multicast packets. Upstream PIM routers depend
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on prune/graft messages from downstream PIM routers to determine if receivers are actually
present on directly connected network segments. The PIM routers exchange state refresh
messages to update their distribution trees. FortiGate units store this state information in a Tree
Information Base (TIB), which is used to build a multicast forwarding table. The information in
the multicast forwarding table determines whether packets are forwarded downstream. The
forwarding table is updated whenever the TIB is modified.
PIM routers receive data streams every few minutes and update their forwarding tables using
the source (S) and multicast group (G) information in the data stream. Superfluous multicast
traffic is stopped by PIM routers that do not have downstream receiversPIM routers that do
not manage multicast groups send prune messages to the upstream PIM routers. When a
receiver requests traffic for multicast address G, the closest PIM router sends a graft message
upstream to begin receiving multicast packets.
FortiGate units operating in NAT mode can also be configured as multicast routers. You can
configure a FortiGate unit to be a Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) router operating in
Sparse Mode (SM) or Dense Mode (DM).
Multicast IP addresses
Multicast uses the Class D address space. The 224.0.0.0 to 239.255.255.255 IP address range
is reserved for multicast groups. The multicast address range applies to multicast groups, not to
the originators of multicast packets. Table 8 lists reserved multicast address ranges and
describes what they are reserved for:
Creating multicast security policies requires multicast firewall addresses. You can add multicast
firewall addresses by going to Firewall Objects > Address > Addresses and selecting Create
New > Multicast Address. The factory default configuration includes multicast addresses for
Bonjour(224.0.0.251-224.0.0.251, EIGRP (224.0.0.10-224.0.0.100), OSPF
(224.0.0.5-224.0.0.60), all_hosts (224.0.0.1-224.0.0.1), and all_routers (224.0.0.2-224.0.0.2).
Table 8: Reserved Multicast address ranges
Reserved
Address Range
Use Notes
224.0.0.0 to
224.0.0.255
Used for network protocols on
local networks. For more
information, see RFC 1700.
In this range, packets are not
forwarded by the router but remain on
the local network. They have a Time to
Live (TTL) of 1. These addresses are
used for communicating routing
information.
224.0.1.0 to
238.255.255.255
Global addresses used for
multicasting data between
organizations and across the
Internet. For more information, see
RFC 1700.
Some of these addresses are
reserved, for example, 224.0.1.1 is
used for Network Time Protocol (NTP).
239.0.0.0 to
239.255.255.255
Limited scope addresses used for
local groups and organizations. For
more information, see RFC 2365.
Routers are configured with filters to
prevent multicasts to these addresses
from leaving the local system.
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PIM Support
A FortiGate unit can be configured to support PIM by going to Router > Dynamic > Multicast
and enabling multicast routing. You can also enable multicast routing using the config
router multicast CLI command. When PIM is enabled, the FortiGate unit allocates memory
to manage mapping information. The FortiGate unit communicates with neighboring PIM
routers to acquire mapping information and if required, processes the multicast traffic
associated with specific multicast groups.
The end-user multicast client-server applications must be installed and configured to initiate
Internet connections and handle broadband content such as audio/video information.
Client applications send multicast data by registering IP traffic with a PIM-enabled router. An
end-user could type in a class D multicast group address, an alias for the multicast group
address, or a call-conference number to initiate the session.
Rather than sending multiple copies of generated IP traffic to more than one specific IP
destination address, PIM-enabled routers encapsulate the data and use the one multicast group
address to forward multicast packets to multiple destinations. Because one destination address
is used, a single stream of data can be sent. Client applications receive multicast data by
requesting that the traffic destined for a certain multicast group address be delivered to them
end-users may use phone books, a menu of ongoing or future sessions, or some other method
through a user interface to select the address of interest.
A class D address in the 224.0.0.0 to 239.255.255.255 range may be used as a multicast group
address, subject to the rules assigned by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). All
class D addresses must be assigned in advance. Because there is no way to determine in
advance if a certain multicast group address is in use, collisions may occur (to resolve this
problem, end-users may switch to a different multicast address).
To configure a PIM domain
1. If you will be using sparse mode, determine appropriate paths for multicast packets.
2. Make a note of the interfaces that will be PIM-enabled. These interfaces may run a unicast
routing protocol.
3. If you will be using sparse mode and want multicast packets to be handled by specific
(static) RPs, record the IP addresses of the PIM-enabled interfaces on those RPs.
4. Enable PIM version 2 on all participating routers between the source and receivers. On
FortiGate units, use the config router multicast command to set global operating
parameters.
5. Configure the PIM routers that have good connections throughout the PIM domain to be
candidate BSRs.
6. If sparse mode is enabled, configure one or more of the PIM routers to be candidate RPs.
7. If required, adjust the default settings of PIM-enabled interface(s).
Multicast forwarding and FortiGate units
In both transparent mode and NAT mode you can configure FortiGate units to forward multicast
traffic.
For a FortiGate unit to forward multicast traffic you must add FortiGate multicast security
policies. Basic multicast security policies accept any multicast packets at one FortiGate
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interface and forward the packets out another FortiGate interface. You can also use multicast
security policies to be selective about the multicast traffic that is accepted based on source and
destination address, and to perform NAT on multicast packets.
In the example shown in Figure 5, a multicast source on the Marketing network with IP address
192.168.5.18 sends multicast packets to the members of network 239.168.4.0. At the FortiGate
unit, the source IP address for multicast packets originating from workstation 192.168.5.18 is
translated to 192.168.18.10. In this example, the FortiGate unit is not acting as a multicast
router.
Multicast forwarding and RIPv2
RIPv2 uses multicast to share routing table information. If your FortiGate unit is installed on a
network that includes RIPv2 routers, you must configure the FortiGate unit to forward multicast
packets so that RIPv2 devices can share routing data through the FortiGate unit. No special
FortiGate configuration is required to share RIPv2 data, you can simply use the information in
the following sections to configure the FortiGate unit to forward multicast packets.
RIPv1 uses broadcasting to share routing table information. To allow RIPv1 packets through a
FortiGate unit you can add standard security policies. Security policies to accept RIPv1 packets
can use the ANY predefined firewall service or the RIP predefined firewall service.
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Figure 5: Example multicast network including a FortiGate unit that forwards multicast packets
Configuring FortiGate multicast forwarding
You configure FortiGate multicast forwarding from the Command Line Interface (CLI). Two steps
are required:
Adding multicast security policies
Enabling multicast forwarding
This second step is only required if your FortiGate unit is operating in NAT mode. If your
FortiGate unit is operating in transparent mode, adding a multicast policy enables multicast
forwarding.
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There is sometimes a confusion between the terms forwarding and routing. These two
functions should not be taking place at the same time.
It is mentioned that multicast-forward should be enabled when the FortiGate unit is in NAT
mode and that this will forward any multicast packet to all interfaces. However, this parameter
should NOT be enabled when the FortiGate unit operates as a multicast router (i.e. with a
routing protocol enabled. It should only be enabled when there is no routing protocols
activated.
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Adding multicast security policies
You need to add security policies to allow packets to pass from one interface to another.
Multicast packets require multicast security policies. You add multicast security policies from
the CLI using the config firewall multicast-policy command. As with unicast
security policies, you specify the source and destination interfaces and optionally the allowed
address ranges for the source and destination addresses of the packets.
You can also use multicast security policies to configure source NAT and destination NAT for
multicast packets.
Keep the following in mind when configuring multicast security policies:
The matched forwarded (outgoing) IP multicast source IP address is changed to the
configured IP address.
Source and Destination interfaces are optional. If left blank, then the multicast will be
forwarded to ALL interfaces.
Source and Destination addresses are optional. If left un set, then it will mean ALL
addresses.
The nat keyword is optional. Use it when source address translation is needed.
Enabling multicast forwarding
Multicast forwarding is enabled by default. In NAT mode you must use the
multicast-forward keyword of the system settings CLI command to enable or disable
multicast forwarding. When multicast-forward is enabled, the FortiGate unit forwards any
multicast IP packets in which the TTL is 2 or higher to all interfaces and VLAN interfaces except
the receiving interface. The TTL in the IP header will be reduced by 1. Even though the multicast
packets are forwarded to all interfaces, you must add security policies to actually allow
multicast packets through the FortiGate. In our example, the security policy allows multicast
packets received by the internal interface to exit to the external interface.
Enabling multicast forwarding is only required if your FortiGate unit is operating in NAT mode. If
your FortiGate unit is operating in transparent mode, adding a multicast policy enables
multicast forwarding.
Enter the following CLI command to enable multicast forwarding:
config system settings
set multicast-forward enable
end
If multicast forwarding is disabled and the FortiGate unit drops packets that have multicast
source or destination addresses.
You can also use the multicast-ttl-notchange keyword of the system settings
command so that the FortiGate unit does not increase the TTL value for forwarded multicast
packets. You should use this option only if packets are expiring before reaching the multicast
router.
config system settings
set multicast-ttl-notchange enable
end
In transparent mode, the FortiGate unit does not forward frames with multicast destination
addresses. Multicast traffic such as the one used by routing protocols or streaming media may
need to traverse the FortiGate unit, and should not be interfere with the communication. To
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avoid any issues during transmission, you can set up multicast security policies. These types of
security policies can only be enabled using the CLI.
In this simple example, no check is performed on the source or destination interfaces. A
multicast packet received on an interface is flooded unconditionally to all interfaces on the
forwarding domain, except the incoming interface.
To enable the multicast policy
config firewall multicast-policy
edit 1
set action accept
end
In this example, the multicast policy only applies to the source port of WAN1 and the
destination port of Internal.
To enable the restrictive multicast policy
config firewall multicast-policy
edit 1
set srcintf wan1
set dstinf internal
set action accept
end
In this example, packets are allowed to flow from WAN1 to Internal, and sourced by the address
172.20.120.129.
To enable the restrictive multicast policy
config firewall multicast-policy
edit 1
set srcintf wan1
set srcaddr 172.20.120.129 255.255.255.255
set dstinf internal
set action accept
end
This example shows how to configure the multicast security policy required for the configuration
shown in Figure 5 on page 157. This policy accepts multicast packets that are sent from a PC
with IP address 192.168.5.18 to destination address range 239.168.4.0. The policy allows the
The CLI parameter multicast-skip-policy must be disabled when using multicast security
policies. To disable enter the command
config system settings
set multicast-skip-policy disable
end
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multicast packets to enter the internal interface and then exit the external interface. When the
packets leave the external interface their source address is translated to 192.168.18.10
config firewall multicast-policy
edit 5
set srcaddr 192.168.5.18 255.255.255.255
set srcintf internal
set destaddr 239.168.4.0 255.255.255.0
set dstintf external
set nat 192.168.18.10
end
This example shows how to configure a multicast security policy so that the FortiGate unit
forwards multicast packets from a multicast Server with an IP 10.10.10.10 is broadcasting to
address 225.1.1.1. This Server is on the network connected to the FortiGate DMZ interface.
config firewall multicast-policy
edit 1
set srcintf DMZ
set srcaddr 10.10.10.10 255.255.255.255
set dstintf Internal
set dstaddr 225.1.1.1 255.255.255.255
set action accept
edit 2
set action deny
end
Multicast routing examples
This section contains the following multicast routing configuration examples and information:
Example FortiGate PIM-SM configuration using a static RP
FortiGate PIM-SM debugging examples
Example multicast destination NAT (DNAT) configuration
Example PIM configuration that uses BSR to find the RP
Example FortiGate PIM-SM configuration using a static RP
The example Protocol Independent Multicast Sparse Mode (PIM-SM) configuration shown in
Figure 6 has been tested for multicast interoperability using PIM-SM between Cisco 3750
switches running 12.2 and a FortiGate-800 running FortiOS v3.0 MR5 patch 1. In this
configuration, the receiver receives the multicast stream when it joins the group 233.254.200.1.
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Figure 6: Example FortiGate PIM-SM topology
The configuration uses a statically configured rendezvous point (RP) which resides on the
Cisco_3750_1. Using a bootstrap router (BSR) was not tested in this example. See Example
PIM configuration that uses BSR to find the RP on page 179 for an example that uses a BSR.
Configuration steps
The following procedures show how to configure the multicast configuration settings for the
devices in the example configuration.
Cisco_3750_1 router configuration
Cisco_3750_2 router configuration
To configure the FortiGate-800 unit
Cisco_3750_3 router configuration
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Cisco_3750_1 router configuration
version 12.2
!
hostname Cisco-3750-1
!
switch 1 provision ws-c3750-24ts
ip subnet-zero
ip routing
!
ip multicast-routing distributed
!
spanning-tree mode pvst
no spanning-tree optimize bpdu transmission
spanning-tree extend system-id
!
interface Loopback0
ip address 169.254.100.1 255.255.255.255
!
interface FastEthernet1/0/23
switchport access vlan 182
switchport mode access
!
interface FastEthernet1/0/24
switchport access vlan 172
switchport mode access
!
interface Vlan172
ip address 10.31.138.1 255.255.255.0
ip pim sparse-mode
ip igmp query-interval 125
ip mroute-cache distributed
!
interface Vlan182
ip address 169.254.82.250 255.255.255.0
ip pim sparse-mode
ip mroute-cache distributed
!
ip classless
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 169.254.82.1
ip http server
ip pim rp-address 169.254.100.1 Source-RP
!
ip access-list standard Source-RP
permit 233.254.200.0 0.0.0.255
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Cisco_3750_2 router configuration
version 12.2
!
hostname Cisco-3750-2
!
switch 1 provision ws-c3750-24ts
ip subnet-zero
ip routing
!
ip multicast-routing distributed
!
spanning-tree mode pvst
no spanning-tree optimize bpdu transmission
spanning-tree extend system-id
!
interface FastEthernet1/0/23
switchport access vlan 138
switchport mode access
!
interface FastEthernet1/0/24
switchport access vlan 182
witchport mode access
!
interface Vlan138
ip address 10.31.138.250 255.255.255.0
ip pim sparse-mode
ip mroute-cache distributed
!
interface Vlan182
ip address 169.254.82.1 255.255.255.0
ip pim sparse-mode
ip mroute-cache distributed
!
ip classless
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 10.31.138.253
ip route 169.254.100.1 255.255.255.255 169.254.82.250
ip http server
ip pim rp-address 169.254.100.1 Source-RP
!
!
ip access-list standard Source-RP
permit 233.254.200.0 0.0.0.255
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To configure the FortiGate-800 unit
1. Configure the internal and external interfaces.
Internal
Go to System > Network > Interfaces.
Select the internal interface
Verify the following settings:
Select OK
External
Go to System > Network > Interfaces.
Select the external interface
Verify the following settings:
Select OK.
Type: Physical Interface
Addressing mode: Manual
IP/Network Mask: 10.31.138.253 255.255.255.0
Administrative Access: PING
Type: Physical Interface
Addressing mode: Manual
IP/Network Mask: 10.31.130.253 255.255.255.0
Administrative Access: HTTPS and PING
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2. Add a firewall addresses.
Go to Policy & Objects> Objects > Addresses.
RP
Select Create New.
Use the following settings:
Select OK.
Multicast source subnet
Select Create New.
Use the following settings:
Select OK.
Category: Address
Name: RP
Type: Subnet
Subnet/IP Range: 169.254.100.1/32
Interface: Any
Visibility <enabled>
Category: Address
Name: multicast_source_subnet
Type: Subnet
Subnet/IP
Range:
169.254.82.0/24
Interface: Any
Visibility <enabled>
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3. Add destination multicast address
Go to Policy & Objects> Objects > Addresses.
Select Create New.
Use the following settings:
Select OK.
Category: Multicast Address
Name: Multicast_stream
Type: Broadcast Subnet
Broadcast Subnet: 233.254.200.0/24
Interface: Any
Visibility <enabled>
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4. Add standard security policies to allow traffic to reach the RP.
Go to Policy & Objects > Policy > IPv4
1st policy
Select Create New
Use the following settings:
Select OK.
2nd policy
Select Create New
Use the following settings:
Select OK.
Incoming Interface: internal
Source Address: all
Outgoing Interface: external
Destination Address: RP
Schedule: always
Service: ALL
Action: ACCEPT
Incoming Interfac: external
Source Address: RP
Outgoing Interface: internal
Destination Address: all
Schedule: always
Service: ALL
Action: ACCEPT
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5. Add the multicast security policy.
Go to Policy & Objects > Policy > Multicast.
Select Create New
Use the following settings:
Select OK.
6. Add an access list. (CLI only)
config router access-list
edit Source-RP
config rule
edit 1
set prefix 233.254.200.0 255.255.255.0
set exact-match disable
next
end
Incoming Interface: external
Source Address: multicast_source_subnet
Outgoing Interface: internal
Destination Address: multicast_stream
Protocol: Any
Action: ACCEPT
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7. Add some static routes.
Go to Router > Static > Static Routes.
Route 1
Select Create New.
Use the following settings:
Select OK.
Route 2
Select Create New.
Use the following settings:
Select OK.
Destination IP/Mask: 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
Device: internal
Gateway: 10.31.130.250
Distance <default>
Priority <default>
Destination IP/Mask: 169.254.0.0/16
Device: external
Gateway: 10.31.138.250
Distance <default>
Priority <default>
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8. Configure multicast routing.
Go to Router > Dynamic > Multicast.
Add the following Static Rendezvous Point(s):
169.254.100.1
Route 1
Select Create New.
Use the following settings:
Select OK.
Route 2
Select Create New.
Use the following settings:
Select OK.
Interface: internal
PIM Mode: Sparse Mode
DR Priority: <not needed in this scenario>
RP Candidate: <not needed in this scenario>
RP Candidate
Priority:
<not needed in this scenario>
Interface: external
PIM Mode: Sparse Mode
DR Priority:
RP Candidate:
RP Candidate
Priority:
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Cisco_3750_3 router configuration
version 12.2
!
hostname Cisco-3750-3
!
switch 1 provision ws-c3750-24ts
ip subnet-zero
ip routing
!
ip multicast-routing distributed
!
spanning-tree mode pvst
no spanning-tree optimize bpdu transmission
spanning-tree extend system-id
!
interface FastEthernet1/0/23
switchport access vlan 128
switchport mode access
!
interface FastEthernet1/0/24
switchport access vlan 130
switchport mode access
!
interface Vlan128
ip address 10.31.128.130 255.255.255.252
ip pim sparse-mode
ip mroute-cache distributed
!
interface Vlan130
ip address 10.31.130.250 255.255.255.0
ip pim sparse-mode
ip mroute-cache distributed
!
ip classless
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 10.31.130.1
ip http server
ip pim rp-address 169.254.100.1 Source-RP
!
!
ip access-list standard Source-RP
permit 233.254.200.0 0.0.0.255
FortiGate PIM-SM debugging examples
Using the example topology shown in Figure 7 you can trace the multicast streams and states
within the three FortiGate units (FGT-1, FGT-2, and FGT-3) using the debug commands
described in this section. The command output in this section is taken from FortiGate unit when
the multicast stream is flowing correctly from source to receiver.
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Figure 7: PIM-SM debugging topology
Checking that the receiver has joined the required group
From the last hop router, FGT-3, you can use the following command to check that the receiver
has correctly joined the required group.
FGT-3 # get router info multicast igmp groups
IGMP Connected Group Membership
Group Address Interface Uptime Expires Last Reporter
239.255.255.1 port3 00:31:15 00:04:02 10.167.0.62
Only 1 receiver is displayed for a particular group, this is the device that responded to the IGMP
query request from the FGT-3. If a receiver is active the expire time should drop to
approximately 2 minutes before being refreshed.
Checking the PIM-SM neighbors
Next the PIM-SM neighbors should be checked. A PIM router becomes a neighbor when the
PIM router receives a PIM hello. Use the following command to display the PIM-SM neighbors
of FGT-3.
FGT-3 # get router info multicast pim sparse-mode neighbour
Neighbor Interface Uptime/Expires Ver DR
Address Priority/Mode
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Checking that the PIM router can reach the RP
The rendezvous point (RP) must be reachable for the PIM router (FGT-3) to be able to send the
*,G join to request the stream. This can be checked for FGT-3 using the following command:
FGT-3 # get router info multicast pim sparse-mode rp-mapping
PIM Group-to-RP Mappings
Group(s): 224.0.0.0/4, Static
RP: 192.168.1.1
Uptime: 07:23:00
Viewing the multicast routing table (FGT-3)
The FGT-3 unicast routing table can be used to determine the path taken to reach the RP at
192.168.1.1. You can then check the stream state entries using the following commands:
FGT-3 # get router info multicast pim sparse-mode table
IP Multicast Routing Table
(*,*,RP) Entries: 0
(*,G) Entries: 1
(S,G) Entries: 1
(S,G,rpt) Entries: 1
FCR Entries: 0
Breaking down each entry in detail:
(*, 239.255.255.1)
RP: 192.168.1.1
RPF nbr: 10.132.0.156
RPF idx: port2
Upstream State: JOINED
Local:
port3
Joined:
Asserted:
FCR:
The RP will always be listed in a *,G entry, the RPF neighbor and interface index will also be
shown. In this topology these are the same in all downstream PIM routers. The state is active so
the upstream state is joined.
(*,*,RP)
Entries
This state may be reached by general joins for all groups served by a
specified RP.
(*,G) Entries State that maintains the RP tree for a given group.
(S,G) Entries State that maintains a source-specific tree for source S and group G.
(S,G,rpt)
Entries
State that maintains source-specific information about source s on the
RP tree for G. For example, if a source is being received on the
source-specific tree, it will normally have been pruned off the RP tree.
FCR The FCR state entries are for tracking the sources in the <*, G> when <S,
G> is not available for any reason, the stream would typically be flowing
when this state exists.
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In this case FGT-3 is the last hop router so the IGMP join is received locally on port3. There is no
PIM outgoing interface listed for this entry as it is used for the upstream PIM join.
(10.166.0.11, 239.255.255.1)
RPF nbr: 10.132.0.156
RPF idx: port2
SPT bit: 1
Upstream State: JOINED
Local:
Joined:
Asserted:
Outgoing:
port3
This is the entry for the SPT, no RP IS listed. The S,G stream will be forwarded out of the stated
outgoing interface.
(10.166.0.11, 239.255.255.1, rpt)
RP: 192.168.1.1
RPF nbr: 10.132.0.156
RPF idx: port2
Upstream State: NOT PRUNED
Local:
Pruned:
Outgoing:
The above S,G,RPT state is created for all streams that have both a S,G and a *,G entry on the
router. This is not pruned in this case because of the topology, the RP and source are reachable
over the same interface.
Although not seen in this scenario, assert states may be seen when multiple PIM routers exist
on the same LAN which can lead to more than one upstream router having a valid forwarding
state. Assert messages are used to elect a single forwarder from the upstream devices.
Viewing the PIM next-hop table
The PIM next-hop table is also very useful for checking the various states, it can be used to
quickly identify the states of multiple multicast streams
FGT-3 # get router info multicast pim sparse-mode next-hop
Flags: N = New, R = RP, S = Source, U = Unreachable
Destination Type Nexthop Nexthop Nexthop Metric Pref
Refcnt
Num Addr Ifindex
_________________________________________________________________
10.166.0.11 ..S. 1 10.132.0.156 9 21 110 3
192.168.1.1 .R.. 1 10.132.0.156 9 111 110 2
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Viewing the PIM multicast forwarding table
Also you can check the multicast forwarding table showing the ingress and egress ports of the
multicast stream.
FGT-3 # get router info multicast table
IP Multicast Routing Table
Flags: I - Immediate Stat, T - Timed Stat, F - Forwarder installed
Timers: Uptime/Stat Expiry
Interface State: Interface (TTL threshold)
(10.166.0.11, 239.255.255.1), uptime 04:02:55, stat expires 00:02:25
Owner PIM-SM, Flags: TF
Incoming interface: port2
Outgoing interface list:
port3 (TTL threshold 1)
Viewing the kernel forwarding table
Also the kernel forwarding table can be verified, however this should give similar information to
the above command:
FGT-3 # diag ip multicast mroute
grp=239.255.255.1 src=10.166.0.11 intf=9 flags=(0x10000000)[ ]
status=resolved
last_assert=2615136 bytes=1192116 pkt=14538 wrong_if=0 num_ifs=1
index(ttl)=[6(1),]
Viewing the multicast routing table (FGT-2)
If you check the output on FGT-2 there are some small differences:
FGT-2 # get router info multicast pim sparse-mode table
IP Multicast Routing Table
(*,*,RP) Entries: 0
(*,G) Entries: 1
(S,G) Entries: 1
(S,G,rpt) Entries: 1
FCR Entries: 0
(*, 239.255.255.1)
RP: 192.168.1.1
RPF nbr: 0.0.0.0
RPF idx: None
Upstream State: JOINED
Local:
Joined:
external
Asserted:
FCR:
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The *,G entry now has a joined interface rather than local because it has received a PIM join
from FGT-3 rather than a local IGMP join.
(10.166.0.11, 239.255.255.1)
RPF nbr: 10.130.0.237
RPF idx: internal
SPT bit: 1
Upstream State: JOINED
Local:
Joined:
external
Asserted:
Outgoing:
external
The S,G entry shows that we have received a join on the external interface and the stream is
being forwarded out of this interface.
(10.166.0.11, 239.255.255.1, rpt)
RP: 192.168.1.1
RPF nbr: 0.0.0.0
RPF idx: None
Upstream State: PRUNED
Local:
Pruned:
Outgoing:
External
The S,G,RPT is different from FGT-3 because FGT-2 is the RP, it has pruned back the SPT for
the RP to the first hop router.
Viewing the multicast routing table (FGT-1)
FGT-1 again has some differences with regard to the PIM-SM states, there is no *,G entry
because it is not in the path of a receiver and the RP.
FGT-1_master # get router info multicast pim sparse-mode table
IP Multicast Routing Table
(*,*,RP) Entries: 0
(*,G) Entries: 0
(S,G) Entries: 1
(S,G,rpt) Entries: 1
FCR Entries: 0
Below the S,G is the SPT termination because this FortiGate unit is the first hop router, the RPF
neighbor always shows as 0.0.0.0 because the source is local to this device. Both the joined
and outgoing fields show as external because the PIM join and the stream is egressing on this
interface.
(10.166.0.11, 239.255.255.1)
RPF nbr: 0.0.0.0
RPF idx: None
SPT bit: 1
Upstream State: JOINED
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Local:
Joined:
external
Asserted:
Outgoing:
external
The stream has been pruned back from the RP because the end-to-end SPT is flowing, there is
no requirement for the stream to be sent to the RP in this case.
(10.166.0.11, 239.255.255.1, rpt)
RP: 0.0.0.0
RPF nbr: 10.130.0.156
RPF idx: external
Upstream State: RPT NOT JOINED
Local:
Pruned:
Outgoing:
Example multicast destination NAT (DNAT) configuration
The example topology shown in Figure 8 and described below shows how to configure
destination NAT (DNAT) for two multicast streams. Both of these streams originate from the
same source IP address, which is 10.166.0.11. The example configuration keeps the streams
separate by creating 2 multicast NAT policies.
In this example the FortiGate units in Figure 8 have the following roles:
FGT-1 is the RP for dirty networks, 233.0.0.0/8.
FGT-2 performs all firewall and DNAT translations.
FGT-3 is the RP for the clean networks, 239.254.0.0/16.
FGT-1 and FGT-3 are functioning as PM enabled routers and could be replaced can be any
PIM enabled router.
This example only describes the configuration of FGT-2.
FGT-2 performs NAT so that the receivers connected to FGT-3 receive the following translated
multicast streams.
If the multicast source sends multicast packets with a source and destination IP of
10.166.0.11 and 233.2.2.1; FGT-3 translates the source and destination IPs to 192.168.20.1
and 239.254.1.1
If the multicast source sends multicast packets with a source and destination IP of
10.166.0.11 and 233.3.3.1; FGT-3 translates the source and destination IPs to 192.168.20.10
and 239.254.3.1
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Figure 8: Example multicast DNAT topology
To configure FGT-2 for DNAT multicast
1. Add a loopback interface. In the example, the loopback interface is named loopback.
config system interface
edit loopback
set vdom root
set ip 192.168.20.1 255.255.255.0
set type loopback
next
end
2. Add PIM and add a unicast routing protocol to the loopback interface as if it was a normal
routed interface. Also add static joins to the loopback interface for any groups to be
translated.
config router multicast
config interface
edit loopback
set pim-mode sparse-mode
config join-group
edit 233.2.2.1
next
edit 233.3.3.1
next
end
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3. In this example, to add firewall multicast policies, different source IP addresses are required
so you must first add an IP pool:
config firewall ippool
edit Multicast_source
set endip 192.168.20.20
set interface port6
set startip 192.168.20.10
next
end
4. Add the translation security policies.
Policy 2, which is the source NAT policy, uses the actual IP address of port6. Policy 1, the
DNAT policy, uses an address from the IP pool.
config firewall multicast-policy
edit 1
set dnat 239.254.3.1
set dstaddr 233.3.3.1 255.255.255.255
set dstintf loopback
set nat 192.168.20.10
set srcaddr 10.166.0.11 255.255.255.255
set srcintf port6
next
edit 2
set dnat 239.254.1.1
set dstaddr 233.2.2.1 255.255.255.255
set dstintf loopback
set nat 192.168.20.1
set srcaddr 10.166.0.11 255.255.255.255
set srcintf port6
next
end
5. Add a firewall multicast policy to forward the stream from the loopback interface to the
physical outbound interface.
This example is an any/any policy that makes sure traffic accepted by the other multicast
policies can exit the FortiGate unit.
config firewall multicast-policy
edit 3
set dstintf port7
set srcintf loopback
next
end
Example PIM configuration that uses BSR to find the RP
This example shows how to configure a multicast routing network for a network consisting of
four FortiGate-500A units (FortiGate-500A_1 to FortiGate-550A_4, see Figure 9). A multicast
sender is connected to FortiGate-500A_2. FortiGate-500A_2 forwards multicast packets in two
directions to reach Receiver 1 and Receiver 2.
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The configuration uses a Boot Start Router (BSR) to find the Rendezvous Points (RPs) instead
of using static RPs. Under interface configuration, the loopback interface lo0 must join the
236.1.1.1 group (source).
This example describes:
Commands used in this example
Configuration steps
Example debug commands
Figure 9: PIM network topology using BSR to find the RP
Commands used in this example
This example uses CLI commands for the following configuration settings:
Adding a loopback interface (lo0)
Defining the multicast routing
Adding the NAT multicast policy
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Adding a loopback interface (lo0)
Where required, the following command is used to define a loopback interface named lo0.
config system interface
edit lo0
set vdom root
set ip 1.4.50.4 255.255.255.255
set allowaccess ping https ssh snmp http telnet
set type loopback
next
end
Defining the multicast routing
In this example, the following command syntax is used to define multicast routing. The
example uses a Boot Start Router (BSR) to find the Rendezvous Points (RPs) instead of
using static RPs. Under interface configuration, the loopback interface lo0 must join the
236.1.1.1 group (source).
config router multicast
config interface
edit port6
set pim-mode sparse-mode
next
edit port1
set pim-mode sparse-mode
next
edit lo0
set pim-mode sparse-mode
set rp-candidate enable
config join-group
edit 236.1.1.1
next
end
set rp-candidate-priority 1
next
end
set multicast-routing enable
config pim-sm-global
set bsr-allow-quick-refresh enable
set bsr-candidate enable
set bsr-interface lo0
set bsr-priority 200
end
end
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Adding the NAT multicast policy
In this example, the incoming multicast policy does the address translation. The NAT
address should be the same as the IP address of the of loopback interface. The DNAT
address is the translated address, which should be a new group.
config firewall multicast-policy
edit 1
set dstintf port6
set srcintf lo0
next
edit 2
set dnat 238.1.1.1
set dstintf lo0
set nat 1.4.50.4
set srcintf port1
next
Configuration steps
In this sample, FortiGate-500A_1 is the RP for the group 228.1.1.1, 237.1.1.1, 238.1.1.1, and
FortiGate-500A_4 is the RP for the other group which has a priority of1. OSPF is used in this
example to distribute routes including the loopback interface. All firewalls have full mesh
security policies to allow any to any.
In the FortiGate-500A_1 configuration, the NAT policy translates source address 236.1.1.1 to
237.1.1.1
In the FortiGate-500A_4, configuration, the NAT policy translates source 236.1.1.1 to
238.1.1.1
Source 236.1.1.1 is injected into network as well.
The following procedures include the CLI commands for configuring each of the FortiGate units
in the example configuration.
To configure FortiGate-500A_1
1. Configure multicast routing.
config router multicast
config interface
edit port5
set pim-mode sparse-mode
next
edit port4
set pim-mode sparse-mode
next
edit lan
set pim-mode sparse-mode
next
edit port1
set pim-mode sparse-mode
next
edit lo999
set pim-mode sparse-mode
next
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edit lo0
set pim-mode sparse-mode
set rp-candidate enable
set rp-candidate-group 1
next
end
set multicast-routing enable
config pim-sm-global
set bsr-candidate enable
set bsr-interface lo0
end
end
2. Add multicast security policies.
config firewall multicast-policy
edit 1
set dstintf port5
set srcintf port4
next
edit 2
set dstintf port4
set srcintf port5
next
edit 3
next
end
3. Add router access lists.
config router access-list
edit 1
config rule
edit 1
set prefix 228.1.1.1 255.255.255.255
set exact-match enable
next
edit 2
set prefix 237.1.1.1 255.255.255.255
set exact-match enable
next
edit 3
set prefix 238.1.1.1 255.255.255.255
set exact-match enable
next
end
next
end
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To configure FortiGate-500A_2
1. Configure multicast routing.
config router multicast
config interface
edit "lan"
set pim-mode sparse-mode
next
edit "port5"
set pim-mode sparse-mode
next
edit "port2"
set pim-mode sparse-mode
next
edit "port4"
set pim-mode sparse-mode
next
edit "lo_5"
set pim-mode sparse-mode
config join-group
edit 236.1.1.1
next
end
next
end
set multicast-routing enable
end
2. Add multicast security policies.
config firewall multicast-policy
edit 1
set dstintf lan
set srcintf port5
next
edit 2
set dstintf port5
set srcintf lan
next
edit 4
set dstintf lan
set srcintf port2
next
edit 5
set dstintf port2
set srcintf lan
next
edit 7
set dstintf port1
set srcintf port2
next
edit 8
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set dstintf port2
set srcintf port1
next
edit 9
set dstintf port5
set srcintf port2
next
edit 10
set dstintf port2
set srcintf port5
next
edit 11
set dnat 237.1.1.1
set dstintf lo_5
set nat 5.5.5.5
set srcintf port2
next
edit 12
set dstintf lan
set srcintf lo_5
next
edit 13
set dstintf port1
set srcintf lo_5
next
edit 14
set dstintf port5
set srcintf lo_5
next
edit 15
set dstintf port2
set srcintf lo_5
next
edit 16
next
end
To configure FortiGate-500A_3
1. Configure multicast routing.
config router multicast
config interface
edit port5
set pim-mode sparse-mode
next
edit port6
set pim-mode sparse-mode
next
edit lo0
set pim-mode sparse-mode
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set rp-candidate enable
set rp-candidate-priority 255
next
edit lan
set pim-mode sparse-mode
next
end
set multicast-routing enable
config pim-sm-global
set bsr-candidate enable
set bsr-interface lo0
end
end
2. Add multicast security policies.
config firewall multicast-policy
edit 1
set dstintf port5
set srcintf port6
next
edit 2
set dstintf port6
set srcintf port5
next
edit 3
set dstintf port6
set srcintf lan
next
edit 4
set dstintf lan
set srcintf port6
next
edit 5
set dstintf port5
set srcintf lan
next
edit 6
set dstintf lan
set srcintf port5
next
end
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To configure FortiGate-500A_4
1. Configure multicast routing.
config router multicast
config interface
edit port6
set pim-mode sparse-mode
next
edit lan
set pim-mode sparse-mode
next
edit port1
set pim-mode sparse-mode
next
edit lo0
set pim-mode sparse-mode
set rp-candidate enable
config join-group
edit 236.1.1.1
next
end
set rp-candidate-priority 1
next
end
set multicast-routing enable
config pim-sm-global
set bsr-allow-quick-refresh enable
set bsr-candidate enable
set bsr-interface lo0
set bsr-priority 1
end
end
2. Add multicast security policies.
config firewall policy
edit 1
set srcintf lan
set dstintf port6
set srcaddr all
set dstaddr all
set action accept
set schedule always
set service ANY
next
edit 2
set srcintf port6
set dstintf lan
set srcaddr all
set dstaddr all
set action accept
set schedule always
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set service ANY
next
edit 3
set srcintf port1
set dstintf port6
set srcaddr all
set dstaddr all
set action accept
set schedule always
set service ANY
next
edit 4
set srcintf port6
set dstintf port1
set srcaddr all
set dstaddr all
set action accept
set schedule always
set service ANY
next
edit 5
set srcintf port1
set dstintf lan
set srcaddr all
set dstaddr all
set action accept
set schedule always
set service ANY
next
edit 6
set srcintf lan
set dstintf port1
set srcaddr all
set dstaddr all
set action accept
set schedule always
set service ANY
next
edit 7
set srcintf port1
set dstintf port1
set srcaddr all
set dstaddr all
set action accept
set schedule always
set service ANY
next
edit 8
set srcintf port6
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set dstintf lo0
set srcaddr all
set dstaddr all
set action accept
set schedule always
set service ANY
next
edit 9
set srcintf port1
set dstintf lo0
set srcaddr all
set dstaddr all
set action accept
set schedule always
set service ANY
next
edit 10
set srcintf lan
set dstintf lo0
set srcaddr all
set dstaddr all
set action accept
set schedule always
set service ANY
next
end
Example debug commands
You can use the following CLI commands to view information about and status of the multicast
configuration. This section includes get and diagnose commands and some sample output.
get router info multicast pim sparse-mode table 236.1.1.1
get router info multicast pim sparse-mode neighbor
Neighbor Interface Uptime/Expires Ver DR
Address Priority/
Mode
83.97.1.2 port6 02:22:01/00:01:44 v2 1 / DR
diagnose ip multicast mroute
grp=236.1.1.1 src=19.2.1.1 intf=7 flags=(0x10000000)[ ]
status=resolved
last_assert=171963 bytes=1766104 pkt=1718 wrong_if=1
num_ifs=2
index(ttl)=[6(1),10(1),]
grp=236.1.1.1 src=1.4.50.4 intf=10 flags=(0x10000000)[ ]
status=resolved
last_assert=834864 bytes=4416 pkt=138 wrong_if=0 num_ifs=2
index(ttl)=[7(1),6(1),]
grp=238.1.1.1 src=1.4.50.4 intf=10 flags=(0x10000000)[ ]
status=resolved
last_assert=834864 bytes=1765076 pkt=1717 wrong_if=0
num_ifs=1
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index(ttl)=[7(1),]
get router info multicast igmp groups
IGMP Connected Group Membership
Group Address Interface Uptime Expires Last
Reporter
236.1.1.1 lan 00:45:48 00:03:21 10.4.1.1
236.1.1.1 lo0 02:19:31 00:03:23 1.4.50.4
get router info multicast pim sparse-mode interface
Address Interface VIFindex Ver/ Nbr DR DR
Mode Count Prior
10.4.1.2 lan 2 v2/S 0 1 10.4.1.2
83.97.1.1 port6 0 v2/S 1 1 83.97.1.2
1.4.50.4 lo0 3 v2/S 0 1 1.4.50.4
get router info multicast pim sparse-mode rp-mapping
PIM Group-to-RP Mappings
This system is the Bootstrap Router (v2)
Group(s): 224.0.0.0/4
RP: 1.4.50.4
Info source: 1.4.50.4, via bootstrap, priority 1
Uptime: 02:20:32, expires: 00:01:58
RP: 1.4.50.3
Info source: 1.4.50.3, via bootstrap, priority 255
Uptime: 02:20:07, expires: 00:02:24
Group(s): 228.1.1.1/32
RP: 1.4.50.1
Info source: 1.4.50.1, via bootstrap, priority 192
Uptime: 02:18:24, expires: 00:02:06
Group(s): 237.1.1.1/32
RP: 1.4.50.1
Info source: 1.4.50.1, via bootstrap, priority 192
Uptime: 02:18:24, expires: 00:02:06
Group(s): 238.1.1.1/32
RP: 1.4.50.1
Info source: 1.4.50.1, via bootstrap, priority 192
Uptime: 02:18:24, expires: 00:02:06
get router info multicast pim sparse-mode bsr-info
PIMv2 Bootstrap information
This system is the Bootstrap Router (BSR)
BSR address: 1.4.50.4
Uptime: 02:23:08, BSR Priority: 1, Hash mask length: 10
Next bootstrap message in 00:00:18
Role: Candidate BSR
State: Elected BSR

Candidate RP: 1.4.50.4(lo0)
Advertisement interval 60 seconds
Next Cand_RP_advertisement in 00:00:54
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Index
A
ACCEPT 75
addresses 31
Allow Invalid SSL Certificate 87
AntiVirus 80
Application Control 81
Application Layer Firewalls 14
B
Boot Strap Router (BSR) 152
C
Central NAT Table 24
Chunked Bypass 84
Comfort Clients 83
D
Data Leak Prevention 82
dense mode 153
DENY 75
Designated Routers (DRs) 152
DLP 82
E
Email Filtering 81
Email Signature 85
EndPoint Control 82
F
Firewall policies 74
Firewall schedules 72
Fixed Port 46
FQDN Addressing 35
Fragmented Messages 85
G
Geography Based Addressing 37
I
ICAP 82
ICMP 48, 51
ICMP Types 52
ICMP6 48
ICMPv6 54
IGMP
RFC 1112 153
RFC 2236 153
RFC 3376 153
Intrusion Protection 81
IP 48
IP address
multicasting 154
IPS 81
M
multicast
dense mode 153
IGMP 153
RFC 3973 152
RFC 4601 152
multicast-enable command 158
multicasting
debugging example 171
enabling 158
IP addresses 154
RIPv2 156
security policies 158
N
NAT 64 25
NAT 66 25
NAT/Route Mode 28
Network Layer or Packet Filter Firewalls
13
O
Oversized File Log 83
Oversized File/Email Threshold 84
P
policies
multicast 158
Policy order 77
policy6_list 16
Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) 152
Protocol Types 48
Proxy Servers 14
Q
Quality of Service 28
Queuing 29
R
Rendezvous Points (RPs) 152
RFC 1112 153
RFC 2236 153
RFC 3286 50
RFC 3376 153
RFC 3973 152
RFC 4601 152
RFC 4960 50
RIPv2 156
S
Schedule Expiration 73
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Schedule groups 72
SCTP 49
security policies
multicast 158
Service Categories 48
Stateful Firewalls 13
Stateless Firewalls 13
T
TCP 48
TCP/UDP/SCTP 48
Traffic policing 28
Traffic Shaping 29
Transparent Mode 28
U
UDP 49
Unified Threat Management 15
UTM profiles 80
UTM Proxy Option Components 82
UTM scanning process 27
V
VoIP 82
W
Web Filtering 81