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    • Parallel Path Processing (Life of a Packet)

    Home FortiGate / FortiOS 6.4.0 Parallel Path Processing (Life of a Packet)
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    Packet flow: NTurbo

    Packet flow: NTurbo

    If your FortiGate supports NTurbo, many flow-based UTM/NGFW sessions can be offloaded to NP6 processors.

    After the first packet, subsequent packets in an offloaded flow-based UTM/NGFW session skip routing, and kernel processors. Flow-based UTM/NGFW operations are still handled by the CPU with IPSA offloading pattern matching to CP8 or CP9 processors.

    If a security threat is found the session is dropped. Otherwise, packets that are not blocked by UTM/NGFW are forwarded out of the egress interfaces by the NP6 processor.

    NTurbo is not compatible with DoS policies, session helpers, or and most types of tunneling. If any of these features are present, flow-based UTM/NGFW sessions are not offloaded by NTurbo.

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    Packet flow: NTurbo

    Packet flow: NTurbo

    If your FortiGate supports NTurbo, many flow-based UTM/NGFW sessions can be offloaded to NP6 processors.

    After the first packet, subsequent packets in an offloaded flow-based UTM/NGFW session skip routing, and kernel processors. Flow-based UTM/NGFW operations are still handled by the CPU with IPSA offloading pattern matching to CP8 or CP9 processors.

    If a security threat is found the session is dropped. Otherwise, packets that are not blocked by UTM/NGFW are forwarded out of the egress interfaces by the NP6 processor.

    NTurbo is not compatible with DoS policies, session helpers, or and most types of tunneling. If any of these features are present, flow-based UTM/NGFW sessions are not offloaded by NTurbo.

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