FortiGate-7000E v6.4.13 special features and limitations

This section describes special features and limitations for FortiGate-7000E 6.4.13.

The FortiGate-7000E uses the Fortinet Security Fabric for communication and synchronization between the FIMs and the FPMs and for normal GUI operation. By default, the Security Fabric is enabled and must remain enabled for normal operation.

Managing the FortiGate-7000E

Management is only possible through the MGMT1 to MGMT4 front panel management interfaces. By default the MGMT1 to MGMT4 interfaces of the FIMs in slot 1 and slot 2 are in a single static aggregate interface named mgmt with IP address 192.168.1.99. You manage the FortiGate-7000E by connecting any one of these eight interfaces to your network, opening a web browser and browsing to the management IP address. For a factory default configuration, browse to https://192.168.1.99.

The FortiGate-7030E has one FIM and the MGMT1 to MGMT4 interfaces of that module are the only interfaces in the aggregate interface.

Default management VDOM

By default the FortiGate-7000E configuration includes a management VDOM named mgmt-vdom. For the FortiGate-7000E system to operate normally you should not change the configuration of this VDOM and this VDOM should always be the management VDOM. You should also not add or remove interfaces from this VDOM.

You have full control over the configurations of other FortiGate-7000E VDOMs.

Maximum number of LAGs and interfaces per LAG

FortiGate-7000E systems support up to 16 link aggregation groups (LAGs). This includes both normal link aggregation groups and redundant interfaces and including the redundant interface that contains the mgmt1 to mgmt4 management interfaces. A FortiGate-7000E LAG can include up to 20 interfaces.

Enhanced MAC (EMAC) VLAN support

FortiGate-7000E supports the media access control (MAC) virtual local area network (VLAN) feature. EMAC VLANs allow you to configure multiple virtual interfaces with different MAC addresses (and therefore different IP addresses) on a physical interface.

For more information about EMAC VLAN support, see Enhanced MAC VLANs.

Use the following command to configure an EMAC VLAN:

config system interface

edit <interface-name>

set type emac-vlan

set vlan-id <VLAN-ID>

set interface <physical-interface>

end

IP multicast

IPv4 and IPv6 Multicast traffic is only sent to the primary FPM (usually the FPM in slot 3). This is controlled by the following configuration:

config load-balance flow-rule

edit 15

set status enable

set vlan 0

set ether-type ipv4

set src-addr-ipv4 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0

set dst-addr-ipv4 224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0

set protocol any

set action forward

set forward-slot master

set priority 5

set comment "ipv4 multicast"

next

edit 16

set status enable

set vlan 0

set ether-type ipv6

set src-addr-ipv6 ::/0

set dst-addr-ipv6 ff00::/8

set protocol any

set action forward

set forward-slot master

set priority 5

set comment "ipv6 multicast"

end

High availability

Only the M1 and M2 interfaces are used for the HA heartbeat communication. For information on how to set up HA heartbeat communication using the M1 and M2 interfaces, see Connect the M1 and M2 interfaces for HA heartbeat communication

The following FortiOS HA features are not supported or are supported differently by FortiGate-7000E:

• Active-active HA is not supported.
• The range for the HA group-id is 0 to 31.
• Failover logic for FortiGate-7000E HA is not the same as FGCP for other FortiGate clusters.
• HA heartbeat configuration is specific to FortiGate-7000E systems and differs from standard HA.
• FortiGate-7000E HA does not support the route-wait and route-hold options for tuning route synchronization between FortiGate-7000Es.
• VLAN monitoring using the config system ha-monitor command is not supported.

• FortiGate-7000E HA does not support using the HA session-sync-dev option. Instead, session synchronization traffic uses the M1 and M2 interfaces, separating session sync traffic from data traffic.

Virtual clustering

For information about virtual clustering limitations, see Limitations of FortiGate-7000E virtual clustering and Virtual clustering VLAN/VDOM limitation.

Shelf manager module

It is not possible to access SMM CLI using Telnet or SSH. Only console access is supported using the chassis front panel console ports as described in the FortiGate-7000E system guide.

For monitoring purpose, IPMI over IP is supported on SMM Ethernet ports. See your FortiGate-7000E system guide for details.

The source-ip option for management services

FortiGate-7000E SLBC does not support the source-ip option for management services (for example, logging, SNMP, connecting to FortiSandbox) that use interfaces in the mgmt-vdom. If you enable the source-ip option, communication will not work. Because of this limitation, all instances of the source-ip option have been removed from the CLI.

FortiOS features not supported by FortiGate-7000E v6.4.13

The following mainstream FortiOS features are not supported by the FortiGate-7000E:

• Hardware switch

• IPv6 clear text traffic over IPv4 or IPv6 IPsec tunnels terminated on the FortiGate-7000E is not supported. This limitation does not affect IPv4 clear text traffic over IPv4 or IPv6 IPsec tunnels terminated on the FortiGate-7000E. This limitation also does not affect any pass through IPsec tunnel traffic that does not terminate on the FortiGate-7000E.

• GRE tunneling is only supported after creating a load balance flow rule, for example:

config load-balance flow-rule

edit 0

set status enable

set vlan 0

set ether-type ip

set protocol gre

set action forward

set forward-slot master

set priority 3

end

• Hard disk features including, WAN optimization, web caching, explicit proxy content caching, disk logging, and GUI-based packet sniffing.
• The FortiGate-7000E platform only supports quarantining files to FortiAnalyzer.
• The FortiGate-7000E does not support configuring dedicated management interfaces using the config system dedicated-mgmt command or by enabling the dedicated-to management interface option. The purpose of the dedicated management interface feature is to add a routing table just for management connections. This functionality is supported by the FortiGate-7000E management VDOM (mgmt-vdom) that has its own routing table and contains all of the FortiGate-7000E management interfaces.

• The FortiOS 6.4 session-ttl option never (which means no session timeout) is only supported if the dp-load-distribution-method is set to src-dst-ip-sport-dport (the default) or src-dst-ip and the firewall policy that accepts the session does not perform NAT. If any other load distribution method is used, or if NAT is enabled, the DP session timer will terminate the session according to the DP processor session timer. For more information about the never option, see No session timeout.

• Enabling the system settings option tcp-session-without-syn and configuring a firewall policy to accept sessions without syn packets allows FortiOS to add entries to its session table for sessions that do not include SYN packets. These sessions can only be load balanced by the DP processor if the dp-load-distribution-method is set to src-dst-ip-sport-dport (default) or src-dst-ip. If any other load distribution method is used, the sessions will be dropped. As well, the DP processor cannot load balance these sessions if they are accepted by a firewall policy with NAT enabled

IPsec VPN tunnels terminated by the FortiGate-7000E

For a list of IPsec VPN features not supported by FortiGate-7000E, see FortiGate-7000E IPsec VPN.

SSL VPN

You can configure the FortiGate-7000E to load balance SSL VPN sessions terminated by the FortiGate-7000E to all FPMs. You can also disable SSL VPN load balancing and send all SSL VPN sessions terminated by the FortiGate-7000E to the primary FPM. For information about SSL VPN support, see SSL VPN load balancing.

Traffic shaping and DDoS policies

Each FPM applies traffic shaping and DDoS quotas independently. Because of load-balancing, this may allow more traffic than expected.

FortiGuard web filtering and spam filtering queries

The FortiGate-7000E sends all FortiGuard web filtering and spam filtering rating queries through a management interface from the management VDOM.

Web filtering quotas

On a VDOM operating with the Inspection Mode set to Proxy, you can go to Security Profiles > Web Filter and set up Category Usage Quotas. Each FPM has its own quota, and the FortiGate-7000E applies quotas per FPM and not per the entire FortiGate-7000E system. This could result in quotas being exceeded if sessions for the same user are processed by different FPMs.

Log messages include a slot field

An additional "slot" field has been added to log messages to identify the FPM that generated the log.

Special notice for new deployment connectivity testing

Only the primary FPM can successfully ping external IP addresses. During a new deployment, while performing connectivity testing from the FortiGate-7000E, make sure to run execute ping tests from the primary FPM CLI.

Display the process name associated with a process ID

You can use the following command to display the process name associated with a process ID (PID):

diagnose sys process nameof <pid>

Where <pid> is the process ID.