UTM inspection on asymmetric traffic on L3

When traffic passes asymmetrically through FGSP peers, UTM inspection can be supported by always forwarding traffic back to the session owner for processing. The session owner is the FortiGate that receives the first packet of the session.

For networks where L2 connectivity is not available, such as cloud environments, traffic bound for the session owner are forwarded through the peer interface using a UDP connection.

In this example, traffic from the internal network first hits FGT_1, but the return traffic is routed to FGT_2. Consequently, return traffic is packed and sent from FGT_2 to FGT_1 using UDP encapsulation between two peer interfaces (port 3). Traffic is then inspected by FGT_1.

Both of the FortiGates in this example are peering on interfaces in the same subnet, but the solution does not require the FortiGate peers to be on the same subnet or connected back-to-back.

Due to the bouncing of traffic back to the session owner, performance degradation is expected.

To configure FGT_1:

1. Configure FGSP cluster attributes, including setting the peer IP to the IP address of FGT_2:

   config system standalone-cluster
       set standalone-group-id 1
       set group-member-id 0
       set layer2-connection unavailable
       unset session-sync-dev
       config cluster-peer
           edit 1
               set peerip 10.2.2.2
           next
       end
   end

2. Configure the firewall policy:

   config firewall policy
       edit 1
           set srcintf "port2"
           set dstintf "port1"
           set srcaddr "all"
           set dstaddr "all"
           set action accept
           set schedule "always"
           set service "ALL"
           set utm-status enable 
           set av-profile "default"
           set logtraffic all
           set nat enable
       next
   end

To configure FGT_2:

1. Configure FGSP cluster attributes, including setting the peer IP to the IP address of FGT_1:

   config system standalone-cluster
       set standalone-group-id 1
       set group-member-id 1
       set layer2-connection unavailable
       unset session-sync-dev
       config cluster-peer
           edit 1
               set peerip 10.2.2.1
           next
       end
   end

2. Configure the firewall policy:

   config firewall policy
       edit 1
           set srcintf "port2"
           set dstintf "port1"
           set srcaddr "all"
           set dstaddr "all"
           set action accept
           set schedule "always"
           set service "ALL"
           set utm-status enable 
           set av-profile "default"
           set logtraffic all
           set nat enable
       next
   end