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FortiWiFi and FortiAP Configuration Guide

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Introduction
Getting started with FortiAP management
- Configuring the FortiGate interface to manage FortiAP units
- Discovering, authorizing, and deauthorizing FortiAP units
- FortiAP diagnostics and tools
- Setting up a mesh connection between FortiAP units
- Data channel security: clear-text, DTLS, and IPsec VPN
Wireless network configuration
- Wireless network configuration tasks
- Setting your geographic location
- Configuring the network interface for the AP unit
- Creating a FortiAP profile
- Defining a wireless network interface (SSID)
  - Changing SSID to VDOM only
  - Airtime fairness
- Configuring security
- Defining SSID groups
- Configuring dynamic user VLAN assignment
- Configuring wireless NAC support
- Configuring user authentication
- Configuring firewall policies for the SSID
- Configuring the built-in access point on a FortiWiFi unit
- Enforcing UTM policies on a local bridge SSID
- Configuring a Syslog profile
- Understanding Distributed Radio Resource Provisioning
  - Configuring Distributed Radio Resource Provisioning
- Translating WiFi QoS WMM marking to DSCP values
- Configuring Layer 3 roaming
Access point configuration
- Network topology of managed APs
- Discovery and authorization of APs
- Register a FortiAP to FortiCloud
- FortiAP CLI access
- FortiAP Configuration mode
- FortiAP unit firmware upgrade
- Advanced WiFi controller discovery
- Wireless client load balancing for high-density deployments
- FortiAP groups
- LAN port options
  - MAC Authentication for LAN port hosts
- LAN port aggregation and redundancy
  - LAN port uplink redundancy without LACP
- CAPWAP
- LED options
Wireless mesh configuration
- Configuring a meshed WiFi network
- Configuring a point-to-point bridge
Hotspot 2.0 configuration
WiFi network with wired LAN configuration
- How to configure a FortiAP local bridge (private cloud-managed AP)
- How to increase the number of supported FortiAPs
Remote WLAN FortiAPs
Features for high-density deployments
Wireless network protection
- Wireless Intrusion Detection System
- WiFi data channel encryption
- Protected Management Frames and Opportunistic Key Caching support
- Bluetooth Low Energy scan
- Preventing local bridge traffic from reaching the LAN
- FortiAP-S and FortiAP-U bridge mode security profiles
- DHCP snooping and option-82 data insertion
- DHCP address enforcement
- Disabling console port access
- Configuring 802.1X supplicant on LAN
- Suppressing phishing SSID
Wireless network monitoring
- Monitoring wireless health and clients
- Monitoring rogue APs
- Suppressing rogue APs
- Monitoring wireless clients
- Monitoring wireless clients over IPv6 traffic
- Monitoring application usage for clients connected to bridge mode SSIDs
- Monitoring FortiAP with SNMP
- Monitoring FortiAP temperatures
- Enabling spectrum analysis
- Disable dedicated scanning on FortiAP F-Series profiles
Wireless network examples
- Basic wireless network example
- Wireless network example with FortiSwitch
- Complex wireless network example
- FortiGate WiFi controller 1+1 fast failover example
- CAPWAP hitless failover using FGCP
FortiWiFi unit as a wireless client
- FortiWiFi unit in client mode
- Configuring a FortiWiFi unit as a wireless client
WiFi maps
Support for location-based services
- Configuring location tracking
- Viewing device location data on a FortiGate unit
- Configuring FortiPresence
Support for Electronic Shelf Label systems
Troubleshooting
- FortiAP shell command
- Signal strength issues
- Throughput issues
- Client connection issues
- FortiAP connection issues
- Testing wireless network health with SAM
- Determining the coverage area of a FortiAP
- Best practices for OSI common sources of wireless issues
- Extended logging
- Packet sniffer
- Debug commands
FortiAP CLI configuration and diagnostics commands
FortiAP API
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FortiWiFi unit as a wireless client

By default, a FortiWiFi unit operates by as a wireless access point. However, select FortiWiFi models can be configured to operate as a wireless client, connecting the FortiGate to another wireless network.

Wireless client mode is supported on the following models:

Models

FWF-40F, FWF-40F-3G4G,

FWF-60E, FWF-60E_DSL, FWF-60E_DSLJ, FWF-60F,

FWF-61E, FWF-61F

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FortiWiFi unit as a wireless client

By default, a FortiWiFi unit operates by as a wireless access point. However, select FortiWiFi models can be configured to operate as a wireless client, connecting the FortiGate to another wireless network.

Wireless client mode is supported on the following models:

Models

FWF-40F, FWF-40F-3G4G,

FWF-60E, FWF-60E_DSL, FWF-60E_DSLJ, FWF-60F,

FWF-61E, FWF-61F

This section includes the following topics:

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