Change log
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Change description |
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January 3, 2023 |
Corrected information about NTurbo support and interface policies, see NTurbo offloads flow-based processing. New section: Tunneling protocols that can be offloaded by NP7 processors. Corrected the documented default values for many of the individual traffic types monitored by NP7 HPE, see NP7 HPE for individual traffic types. |
October 24, 2022 |
Corrections to FortiGate-5001E and 5001E1 fast path architecture. |
September 27, 2022 |
New information about NP7 DoS policy offloading limitations added to DoS policy hardware acceleration. |
September 6, 2022 |
Added a disclaimer to CP9, CP9XLite, and CP9Lite capabilities. |
August 29, 2022 |
New section: FortiGate 400F and 401F fast path architecture. |
August 11, 2022 |
Changes to the following sections: |
July 26, 2022 |
New section: NP6 HPE host protection engine. |
July 20, 2022 |
Improvements to Configuring hyperscale TCP timeout profiles and Configuring hyperscale UDP timeout profiles. |
July 12, 2022 |
More information and improvements made to FortiGate 600F and 601F fast path architecture. Fixes to NTurbo and IPSA and IPSA offloads flow-based pattern matching. More information about NP7 traffic shaping added to NP7 traffic shaping. |
June 28, 2022 |
New sections: |
May 6, 2022 |
Changes to config dsw-queue-dts-profile. New section: diagnose sys session list and no_ofld_reason field (NP7 session information). Previous versions of this document incorrectly stated that NP6 processors support offloading DoS policy sessions. This has been corrected throughout the document as required. |
April 19, 2022 |
New sections: Added information about NP6 processor support of DoS protection and offloading DoS policies. Changes to NP7 Host Protection Engine (HPE). |
March 21, 2022 |
Added the following sections: |
March 2, 2022 |
Renamed the section: Configuring NP7 queue protocol prioritization. New section Default NP7 queue protocol prioritization configuration. Correction to Disabling NP offloading for firewall policies and Disabling nTurbo for firewall policies. |
December 17, 2021 |
Corrected the default setting and added more information to vlan-lookup-cache {disable | enable}. |
December 13, 2021 |
Updated the following sections to correct information about interface groups and to add information about splitting interfaces: Moved information about improving CPS performance to sections describing the following FortiGate models that support this feature: Removed information about older NP and CP processors and removed information about SP processors since older FortiGate models that include this hardware are not supported by FortiOS 6.4. |
December 2, 2021 |
Corrections to FortiGate 80F, 81F, and 80F Bypass fast path architecture. |
December 1, 2021 |
Changes to policy-offload-level {disable | dos-offload | full-offload}. Correction to Disabling NP offloading for firewall policies. New section Disabling nTurbo for firewall policies. Removed the incorrect section "Disabling CP offloading for firewall policies". |
November 25, 2021 |
FortiOS 6.4.8 document release. See What's new for FortiGates with NP7 processors for FortiOS 6.4.8. |
September 17, 2021 |
More information added to NP6 session drift. |
September 9, 2021 |
Added more information about the NP6XLite processor to Network processors (NP7, NP6, NP6XLite, and NP6Lite) and NP6XLite processors. This content continues to be under development. If you have comments about it, contact techdoc@fortinet.com. Updates to the following sections: |
September 3, 2021 |
New and improved content:
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August 5, 2021 |
Updated NTurbo offloads flow-based processing to clarify that NTurbo also applies to IPsec VPN sessions. Corrected errors in the section FortiGate 100F and 101F fast path architecture. |
July 9, 2021 |
FortiOS 6.4.6 document release. FortiOS 6.4.6 includes support for FortiGates with NP7 processors and for NP7 hyperscale firewall features. See What's new for FortiGates with NP7 processors for FortiOS 6.4.6.
Updated NP6 session fast path requirements to list support for offloading UDP traffic with a destination port of 4500 (ESP-in-UDP traffic). New section: Offloading UDP-encapsulated ESP traffic. Added a note about NP6 processors not offloading sessions between two EMAC VLANs on NPU inter-VDOM link interfaces to Using VLANs to add more accelerated inter-VDOM link interfaces. |
June 22, 2021 |
Corrected integrated switch fabric information in the following sections: |
June 16, 2021 |
Added more information about bypass mode to: |
April 12, 2021 |
Improved the information in Supporting IPsec anti-replay protection. New section: FPM-7630E fast path architecture. Corrected the output of the |
March 1, 2021 |
Corrected the Updated the architecture sections for most E and F models to include more information about management/HA and data processing separation. For example, see the following: |
December 18, 2020 |
New section: FortiGate 200F and 201F fast path architecture. |
December 10, 2020 |
New section: FortiGate 80F, 81F, and 80F Bypass fast path architecture. More information about NetFlow support added to sFlow and NetFlow and hardware acceleration. Corrected the New sections: |
November 23, 2020 |
More information and corrections about SOC4 (NP6XLite and CP9XLite) and SOC3 (NP6Lite and CP9Lite). |
October 19, 2020 |
Added bypass interface information to FortiGate 800D fast path architecture. Minor improvements to the bypass interface information in FortiGate 2500E fast path architecture. Other misc. changes and fixes. |
September 14, 2020 |
Improved information about how for NP7 and many more recent NP6 fast path architectures the HA interfaces are not connected to the NP7 or NP6 processors. Information about bypass mode added to FortiGate 2500E fast path architecture. Corrected the output of the Hardware architectures changed: |
August 25, 2020 |
New section: FortiGate 100E and 101E fast path architecture. Added a note about NP6 processors and traffic shaping counters to NP6 processors and traffic shaping. Information about setting interface speeds added to FortiGate 3400E and 3401E fast path architecture and FortiGate 3600E and 3601E fast path architecture. |
August 21, 2020 |
Added NP6XLite content. |
July 8, 2020 |
Corrected the Added information about interface groups for the following models:
Added a note about ESP in UDP sessions (UDP port 4500) not been offloaded by NP6 processors to NP6 session fast path requirements. Corrections to Dedicated management CPU. Changes to Disabling NP6, NP6XLite, and NP6Lite hardware acceleration (fastpath). |
May 21, 2020 |
New sections: |
April 3, 2020 |
Improvements to the information about the HPE in Configuring individual NP6 processors. New sections: |
March 31, 2019 |
FortiOS 6.4 document release. |