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FortiGate-6000 Administration Guide

Change log

Change log

Date Change description

July 5, 2024

More information added about the FortiGate 6001F and how FortiGate 6001F licensing works. See FortiGate 6001F model licensing.

July 2, 2024

Changes to Load balancing TCP, UDP, and ICMP sessions with fragmented packets.

April 9, 2023

The execute load-balance update and the execute load-balance load-backup-image commands were removed from the FortiGate 6000F for FortiOS 7.2.5 (when the FortiGate 6000F was merged into the main FortiOS 7.2.x firmware branch). All references to these commands have been removed from this document. The sections Installing firmware on an individual FPC and Updating FPC firmware to match the management board have been updated to describe how to install firmware on an individual FPC from the FPC BIOS.

April 3, 2024

Information about the diagnose span-sniffer command that can be used to sniff packets on internal FortiGate 6000F switch and DP processor interfaces added to What's new for FortiGate 6000F 7.2.6 and Packet sniffing integrated switch fabric (ISF) interfaces.

March 14, 2024 FortiOS 7.2.8 document release.
February 7, 2024 FortiOS 7.2.7 document release.

February 6, 2024

Corrected information about how SLBC platforms do not support FGSP L2 session synchronization links in FortiGate-6000 FGSP.

October 13, 2023

The config vpn ssl settings option tunnel-addr-assigned-method is now available again, see FortiOS features that are not supported by FortiGate 6000F 7.2.8.

Added a link to more information about FortiGate 6000F SNAT port allocation to Controlling SNAT port partitioning behavior.

September 28, 2023 FortiOS 7.2.6 document release.

July 24, 2023

New section, FortiGate 6000F IPsec load balancing EMAC VLAN interface limitation.

June 8, 2023 FortiOS 7.2.5 document release.

Change log

Change log

Date Change description

July 5, 2024

More information added about the FortiGate 6001F and how FortiGate 6001F licensing works. See FortiGate 6001F model licensing.

July 2, 2024

Changes to Load balancing TCP, UDP, and ICMP sessions with fragmented packets.

April 9, 2023

The execute load-balance update and the execute load-balance load-backup-image commands were removed from the FortiGate 6000F for FortiOS 7.2.5 (when the FortiGate 6000F was merged into the main FortiOS 7.2.x firmware branch). All references to these commands have been removed from this document. The sections Installing firmware on an individual FPC and Updating FPC firmware to match the management board have been updated to describe how to install firmware on an individual FPC from the FPC BIOS.

April 3, 2024

Information about the diagnose span-sniffer command that can be used to sniff packets on internal FortiGate 6000F switch and DP processor interfaces added to What's new for FortiGate 6000F 7.2.6 and Packet sniffing integrated switch fabric (ISF) interfaces.

March 14, 2024 FortiOS 7.2.8 document release.
February 7, 2024 FortiOS 7.2.7 document release.

February 6, 2024

Corrected information about how SLBC platforms do not support FGSP L2 session synchronization links in FortiGate-6000 FGSP.

October 13, 2023

The config vpn ssl settings option tunnel-addr-assigned-method is now available again, see FortiOS features that are not supported by FortiGate 6000F 7.2.8.

Added a link to more information about FortiGate 6000F SNAT port allocation to Controlling SNAT port partitioning behavior.

September 28, 2023 FortiOS 7.2.6 document release.

July 24, 2023

New section, FortiGate 6000F IPsec load balancing EMAC VLAN interface limitation.

June 8, 2023 FortiOS 7.2.5 document release.