FORTINET Security Appliance - with 1 Year FortiCare 24X7 Comprehensive Support + 1 Year FortiGuard - GigE - Wi-Fi - Desktop

hello alan steady a network architect with firewalls.com here to provide another how-to video this time we're here in the studio with our 4860e and we will be walking through getting started so currently i have my fortigate physical connections to both our lan which is port 1 and wan interfaces the lan interface is labeled again as port 1 on this particular model and the wan interface i'm connected to is labeled as wan one before we get started it is important to first make the decision on how the fortigate will be operating within our environment there are two operation modes that the appliance can be placed in either a nat or transparent mode the nat mode is our more common operating mode where the fortigate is placed into a layer 3 route mode and where we can assign ip addresses to our interfaces and packets are routed via ip addresses when placed in a transparent mode the fortigate