Tutorial News Comments FAQ Related Articles

How to Configure Static NAT on Fortigate firewall

{{postValue.id}}

To Configure Static NAT On Fortigate Firewall

Introduction:

NAT policies support translation of port addresses on your external IP to unique internal addresses, which hugely expands the functionality of a single address that also allow us to specify how the FortiGate routes packets between your subnets, so that we can establish DMZs and specific packet routing policies.

Steps for Configuration:

Login to your firewall dashboard snap1 Now move to your interface configuration snap2 Here you will see I have configured two ports, port 1 and port 2 snap3 Now goto the address tab to configure address snap4 Now give all the details to configure address for web server snap5 Now goto the Virtualip tab to configure virtual IP snap6 Give all the required details in it' snap7 snap8 After that enable port forwarding for it snap9 snap10 snap11 Now go for the ipv4 policy configuration snap12 snap13 snap14 snap15 snap16 With this Static configuration on fortigate firewall comes to an end.

Tags:
Author: 

Comments ( 0 )

No comments available

Frequently asked questions ( 5 )

Q

What is a firewall?

A

A firewall is a network security system that monitors and controls the incoming and outgoing network traffic based on predetermined security rules. A firewall typically establishes a barrier between a trusted network and an untrusted network.

Q

What is virtual ip address?

A

A virtual IP address (VIP or VIPA) is an IP address that doesn't correspond to an actual physical network interface.

Q

What is static NAT?

A

Static NAT maps network traffic from a static external IP address to an internal IP address or network. It creates a static translation of real addresses to mapped addresses

Q

What is dynamic NAT?

A

dynamic NAT to translate a set of unregistered IP addresses to a smaller set of registered addresses. Dynamic NAT enables you to connect to a large number of hosts to the public Internet using a limited number of registered addresses.

Q

What is ipv4 policy in firewall?

A

A firewall policy defines how an organization's firewalls should handle inbound and outbound network traffic for specific IP addresses and address ranges, protocols, applications, and content types based on the organization's information security policies.

Back To Top!