Configuring a FortiGate SSL VPN

Configuring firewall policies

Table 1: AV/Firewall supported product detection

Product

AV

Firewall

 

 

 

Norton Internet Security 2006

Y

Y

 

 

 

Trend Micro PC-cillin

Y

Y

 

 

 

McAfee

Y

Y

 

 

 

Sophos Anti-Virus

Y

N

 

 

 

Panda Platinum 2006 Internet Security

Y

Y

 

 

 

F-Secure

Y

Y

 

 

 

Secure Resolutions

Y

Y

 

 

 

Cat Computer Services

Y

Y

 

 

 

AhnLab

Y

Y

 

 

 

Kaspersky

Y

Y

 

 

 

ZoneAlarm

Y

Y

 

 

 

Require Virtual Desktop Connection prevents a user from establishing a SSL VPN session without using the SSL VPN Virtual Desktop application. For more information, see the SSL VPN User Guide.

11To enable the FortiGate unit to remove residual information from the remote client computer (for example, from the web browser cache) just before the SSL VPN session ends, select Enable Cache Clean. When this feature is enabled, if the client’s browser cannot install and run the cache cleaner, the user is not allowed to access the SSL-VPN portal.

12To allow the SSL VPN user group to use a pre-configured bookmark group, enable Bookmarks and select the bookmark group from the drop-down list.

13To have the FortiGate unit display a second HTML page in a popup window when the web portal home page is displayed, type the URL of the web page into the Redirect URL field.

14To display a custom web portal home page caption for this group, enter the message in the Customize portal message for this group field.

Note: This custom message overrides the portal message configured in VPN > SSL > Config.

15Select OK.

Configuring firewall policies

This section contains the procedures needed to configure firewall policies for web- only mode operation and tunnel-mode operation. These procedures assume that you have already completed the procedures outlined in “Configuring user accounts and SSL VPN user groups” on page 42.

A firewall policy specifies the originating (source) IP address of a packet and the destination address defines the IP address of the intended recipient or network.

In general, configuring a firewall policy involves:

specifying the IP source and destination addresses

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FORTIOS V3.0 MR7 specifications

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