Configuring a FortiGate SSL VPN

Configuring firewall policies

Note: To provide access to a single host or server, you would type an IP address like 172.16.10.2/32. To provide access to two servers having contiguous IP addresses, you would type an IP address range like 172.16.10.[4-5].

5Select OK.

To define the firewall policy for web-only mode connections

1Go to Firewall > Policy and select Create New.

2Enter these settings in particular:

Source

Interface/Zone

 

Select the FortiGate interface that accepts connections from remote

 

users.

 

Address Name

 

Select all.

Destination

Interface/Zone

 

Select the FortiGate interface to the local private network (for example,

 

dmz).

 

Address Name

 

Select the IP destination address that you defined previously (for

 

example, Subnet_1).

Service

Select ANY.

Action

Select SSL-VPN.

SSL Client

Select to allow traffic generated by holders of a (shared) group

Certificate

certificate, for example, a user group containing PKI peers/users. The

Restrictive

holders of the group certificate must be members of an SSL VPN user

group, and the name of that user group must be present in the Allowed

 

 

list.

Cipher Strength

Select one of the following options to determine the level of SSL

 

encryption to use. The web browser on the remote client must be

 

capable of matching the level that you select:

 

• To use any cipher suite, select Any.

 

• To use a 164-bit or greater cipher suite, select High >= 164.

 

• To use a 128-bit or greater cipher suite, select Medium >= 128.

User

Select one of the following options to bind user groups to authentication

Authentication

methods:

Method

• If the user group contains only local users, select Local.

 

• If the remote clients will be authenticated by an external RADIUS

 

server, select Radius.

 

• If the remote clients will be authenticated by an external LDAP server,

 

select LDAP.

 

• If the user group contains Local, RADIUS, and LDAP users, select

 

Any to enable all of the authentication methods. Local is attempted

 

first, then RADIUS, then LDAP.

Available

Select the name of the user group requiring SSL VPN access, and then

Groups

select the right-pointing arrow. Do not select more than one user group

 

unless all members of the selected user groups have identical access

 

requirements.

3Select OK.

4If the user group requires access to another server or network, create the IP destination address (see “To specify the destination IP address” on page 46) and repeat this procedure to create the required firewall policy.

5Create additional IP destination addresses and firewall policies if required for each additional user group.

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FORTIOS V3.0 MR7 specifications

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