They DO have route-based VPN capabilities, but you would be hard-pressed to even find Checkpoint employees that have mastered or use this feature. Usually customers running Checkpoint have a difficult time understanding the concept because normally, Checkpoint is a strict Policy-based VPN solution. Currently, there each spoke has a site-to-site VPN already established. Use CaseĬustomer wants to get traffic from 10.3.3.0/24 (spoke 2) to 10.2.2.0/24 (spoke 1) using the Fortigate as the hub. You can use Workspace Mode to prevent mistakenly locking out yourself whenĬhanging Local-in policy, see Resources at the end of the post.Here is an issue I get questions about all the time.

Settings → Log All for denied packets to be logged. In short - VIPs override Local-in policies.īy default, Local-in policy hits are not logged, you have to set in Log Policy for the same IPs, the Fortigate will only look at Security Rules, Port or a one-to-one NAT in Security Rules, no matter what you do in Local-in This means, for example, if you configured a port-forwarding VIP allowing some specific Local-in policy does NOT control NAT/port-forwarded rules, aka Virtual IPs In newer FortiOS versions, if I remember correctly, 6.4.9 or newer, we can set as a source address the Geography (Geolocation) object, allowing/blocking this way access by the country. Source and destination address (you can use all), schedule, and service (you When configuring on CLI, you must specify: incoming interface to protect, This way, the default auto-created rule port 179 TCP -Īllow ALL will not be reached when matching the traffic. Restrict BGP port to specific IPs, you will need to create 2 rules: 1st withĪction accept and use those specific IPs, then 2nd rule below, that denies ALL E.g., once youĬonfigure BGP on the Fortigate, this will open port 179 TCP to ALL, so to This means you have to take them into account. TheĬustom rules we create on CLI override (go above) the default rules, but do not Other way but by disabling/deleting services that opened them up. You cannot disable/delete/manipulate the auto-created by Fortigate rules any The default action in rules is deny, so when you see no action in the show output,

You have separate, ipv4 and ipv6, local-in policies. My advice: forget about GUI, work on CLI from Rules you configure on CLI, and thus may confuse you into thinkingĬLI-configured rules do not work.

The Fortigate when you enable appropriate services.

The Local-in policy can only be configured in CLI, the GUI display isĪdditionally, the GUI displays only default rules, created automatically by Have to go to System → Feature Visibility → Local-in Policy to make it so. It is visible in the GUI by default starting with FortiOS 7.x, but in older versions you

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