In Part 1 we got the prerequisites sorted out for the HA (removed all PPPoE or DHCP address assignment from the FG boxes and VLANed a switch to split the inputs between both boxes). Part 2 is considerably easier, the cabling had been done for the VLANs now we had to designate 2x ports as […]

I recently set up 2x Fortigate 200B units to run in HA Active/Active mode, this posed a number of challenges: HA doesn’t work if any interfaces use PPPoE or have an address assigned via DHCP How do I effectively split our network communications between both units? Challenge 1 The main problem was that both the […]