New features and changes

Router

an administration account with access profile that provides read and write access to

only the admin administrator account can configure a VDOM unless you create and assign a regular administrator to that VDOM

Router

The Router menu consists of the following menus:

Static

Dynamic

Monitor

Static

The Static menu has two tabs, Policy Route and Static Route. The Policy Route tab was previously a menu in the Router menu.

Dynamic

The Dynamic menu is new and includes four tabs to configure Routing Information Protocol (RIP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), and Multicast protocols.

Dynamic routing protocols enable the FortiGate unit to automatically share information about routes with neighboring routers, including learning about routers and networks advertised by neighboring routers.

RIP protocol is a distance-vector routing protocol for small networks, or similar networks.

OSPF is slightly different, and is a link-state routing protocol, most often used in large networks to share networking information among the routers in the same autonomous system.

BGP is an Internet routing protocol, typically used by ISPs to exchange routing information between different ISP networks. For example, a BGP enables the sharing of network paths between the ISP network and an autonomous system that uses RIP and/or OSPF to route packets within the autonomous system.

Multicast enables the FortiGate unit to operate as a Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) version 2 router in the root virtual domain. The PIM routers throughout the network ensure only one copy of the packet is forwarded until it reaches an end-point destination and at this destination copies of the packet are made only when required to deliver the information to multicast client applications requesting traffic destined for the multicast address.

Note: The following are now in the CLI:

Distribution list

Offset list

Pre-fix list

Route-Map

Key-chain

Access list

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Fortinet FortiOS 3.0 manual Router, Static, Dynamic

FortiOS 3.0 specifications

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