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Router, Static, Dynamic – Fortinet FortiOS 3.0 User Manual

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New features and changes

Router

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