Fortigate Firewall HA (High availability) Deployment
Deploying high availability (HA) on Fortinet FortiGate firewalls offers several benefits, including: On this topology we have two Fortinet Fortigate firewalls, two network switches, one router, four end-users. We will complete all the physical connections between devices, then jump into Fortigate configurations. We will start configuring Master Firewall with 3 interfaces, LAN-WAN-HA LINK. Second firewall […]
Cisco ASA 5506 firewall initial deployment with CLI
Cisco ASA (Adaptive Security Appliance) is a firewall and network security device produced by Cisco Systems. It provides advanced firewall, VPN (Virtual Private Network), and intrusion prevention capabilities to protect networks from unauthorized access, threats, and attacks. The Cisco ASA firewall offers both hardware and software components, including a dedicated security operating system called Cisco […]
What is a network port? Well known ports and registered ports.
A network port is a communication endpoint in a network. It is identified by a numerical value, called a port number, which helps direct network traffic to specific applications or services running on a device. Ports allow multiple applications to coexist on the same network device by assigning unique port numbers to each application. There […]
Cisco WLAN Controller with VLANs through multiple SSIDs
Let’s start configuring our VLANs and ports. We will create 3 VLANs on SW1 core switch. One of them will serve as Management subnet, others will serve as Office and Guest networks. Upon completion of VLAN and port configurations, we will start configuring Cisco Wireless Controllers and our Cisco Access Points. Both access points will […]