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Change log

Date

Change description

March 8, 2023

NP7 hardware logging must use interfaces connected to NP7 processors to communicate with the remove log servers. This information was added to Configuring hardware logging.

January 11, 2023

Added more information about arp-reply support limitations for IPv4 and IPv6 firewall VIPs to Hyperscale firewall 6.2.7 incompatibilities and limitations.

November 22, 2022

Corrections to Creating hyperscale firewall VDOMs.

December 2, 2021

Added two new FGCP HA-related limitations to Hyperscale firewall 6.2.7 incompatibilities and limitations.

Improved the information in Enabling hyperscale firewall features.

October 18, 2021

Added more information to Optimizing HA hardware session synchronization performance. New section: Reassembling fragmented packets.

June 21, 2021

New section Hyperscale firewall 6.2.7 incompatibilities and limitations. Added information about FortiGates licensed for hyperscale firewall features not supporting the proxy option for DoS policy anomalies to this section.

June 9, 2021

The section What's new for hyperscale firewall for FortiOS 6.2.7 and this document includes new FortiOS 6.2.7 hyperscale firewall features. New FortiOS 6.2.7 NP7 processor features have been moved to Hardware Acceleration. See also, What's new for FortiGates with NP7 processors for FortiOS 6.2.7

Corrections to Applying the hyperscale firewall activation code or license key.

June 1, 2021

FortiOS 6.2.7 document release.

March 24, 2021

New section Displaying IP pool data.

Corrections to information about the cgn-session-quota and cgn-resource-quota options in the section CGN resource allocation hyperscale firewall policies.

March 18, 2021

Added information about hyperscale firewall VDOMs not supporting central NAT and added links to more information about hyperscale firewall incompatibilities and limitations to Getting started with NP7 hyperscale firewall features.

March 11, 2021

New section Hyperscale sessions dashboard widget.

Added a limitation of the NP7 packet sniffer to NP7 hyperscale firewall packet sniffer. The NP7 packet sniffer does not support sniffing traffic on IPv4 or IPv6 IPsec VPN tunnel interfaces.

February 22, 2021

Fixes to the content in SIP and hyperscale firewall support and fixed a few typos.

February 19, 2021

Fixed some errors in NP7 hyperscale firewall packet sniffer.

Improved the explanations in Creating hyperscale firewall VDOMs and Enabling hyperscale firewall features.

February 18, 2021

New section: CGN resource allocation firewall policy source and destination address limits. Added examples to NP7 hyperscale firewall packet sniffer.

February 17, 2021

Added a new feature to What's new for hyperscale firewall for FortiOS 6.2.6 and fixed some broken links.

February 12, 2021

Initial version.

Change log

Date

Change description

March 8, 2023

NP7 hardware logging must use interfaces connected to NP7 processors to communicate with the remove log servers. This information was added to Configuring hardware logging.

January 11, 2023

Added more information about arp-reply support limitations for IPv4 and IPv6 firewall VIPs to Hyperscale firewall 6.2.7 incompatibilities and limitations.

November 22, 2022

Corrections to Creating hyperscale firewall VDOMs.

December 2, 2021

Added two new FGCP HA-related limitations to Hyperscale firewall 6.2.7 incompatibilities and limitations.

Improved the information in Enabling hyperscale firewall features.

October 18, 2021

Added more information to Optimizing HA hardware session synchronization performance. New section: Reassembling fragmented packets.

June 21, 2021

New section Hyperscale firewall 6.2.7 incompatibilities and limitations. Added information about FortiGates licensed for hyperscale firewall features not supporting the proxy option for DoS policy anomalies to this section.

June 9, 2021

The section What's new for hyperscale firewall for FortiOS 6.2.7 and this document includes new FortiOS 6.2.7 hyperscale firewall features. New FortiOS 6.2.7 NP7 processor features have been moved to Hardware Acceleration. See also, What's new for FortiGates with NP7 processors for FortiOS 6.2.7

Corrections to Applying the hyperscale firewall activation code or license key.

June 1, 2021

FortiOS 6.2.7 document release.

March 24, 2021

New section Displaying IP pool data.

Corrections to information about the cgn-session-quota and cgn-resource-quota options in the section CGN resource allocation hyperscale firewall policies.

March 18, 2021

Added information about hyperscale firewall VDOMs not supporting central NAT and added links to more information about hyperscale firewall incompatibilities and limitations to Getting started with NP7 hyperscale firewall features.

March 11, 2021

New section Hyperscale sessions dashboard widget.

Added a limitation of the NP7 packet sniffer to NP7 hyperscale firewall packet sniffer. The NP7 packet sniffer does not support sniffing traffic on IPv4 or IPv6 IPsec VPN tunnel interfaces.

February 22, 2021

Fixes to the content in SIP and hyperscale firewall support and fixed a few typos.

February 19, 2021

Fixed some errors in NP7 hyperscale firewall packet sniffer.

Improved the explanations in Creating hyperscale firewall VDOMs and Enabling hyperscale firewall features.

February 18, 2021

New section: CGN resource allocation firewall policy source and destination address limits. Added examples to NP7 hyperscale firewall packet sniffer.

February 17, 2021

Added a new feature to What's new for hyperscale firewall for FortiOS 6.2.6 and fixed some broken links.

February 12, 2021

Initial version.