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Upgrade Guide for FortiOS v3.0
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• 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