Load balancing Fortigate 40C

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ChadPC

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Hi All

I am hoping someone can assist me, Recently we have installed a Fortigate 40c mainly because we have two ISP's, one being your normal ADSL line and the other being a microwave link and we are hoping to do loading balancing between the two.We would like to send email traffic and all traffic to and from our hosted servers over the microwave link and everything else over the ADSL line. I have been trolling the internet looking for guide on how to do this but nothing specific to my issue:cry: please help

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Static routing would be the best for this, based on source and destination IP addresses. You will just need to make sure you add your "0.0.0.0" route underneath the routes for your hosted servers so that your hosted servers rule is processed before the "0.0.0.0" rule.

If you know specific ports that you want to route, that is normally the best practice. Then just setup Policy based routing dependent on the service you want to route via a specified WAN port.

But agreed with DWPTA, you will need to know the basics of routing to set this up...
 
lumpyza said:
Static routing would be the best for this, based on source and destination IP addresses. You will just need to make sure you add your "0.0.0.0" route underneath the routes for your hosted servers so that your hosted servers rule is processed before the "0.0.0.0" rule.

If you know specific ports that you want to route, that is normally the best practice. Then just setup Policy based routing dependent on the service you want to route via a specified WAN port.

But agreed with DWPTA, you will need to know the basics of routing to set this up...
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:erm: Sorry for the contradiction, static routing would prob be the easiest, policy based would be the best way to do it...
 
Like the others said - you're looking at Policy Based Routing.

Totally random question - who is supplying the microwave link?
 
Enhanced is supplying our microwave link, i had to go with static routing due to the amount of time i had, just out of interested why recommend policy based routing over static routing? and thank you all for your response and help
 
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