To configure SD-WAN in FortiGate Firewall
Introduction:
SD-WAN, or Software-Defined Wide-Area Networking, is a method for using software to build wide-area networks easily. The Configurations and access methods are controlled easily and applied to all sites and also removing the requirement to manual administer each WAN device individually.
Steps to configure SD-WAN
Login to your firewall dashboard
Now select network interface section
Now configure wan1 interface
Now configure wan2 interface
Now configure SD WAN zone
Select wan2 interface also in zone
Configured two interface under the SD-WAN zone
Now configure DNS
Next step is to define SD-WAN rules
This is the configured SD WAN rules
Configuration of Performance SLA
There should be a static route for the SD WAN
Now in the end define Firewall Policy
This is the configured firewall policy
With this method the configuration of SD-WAN comes to an end.
FAQ
While SD-WAN architecture makes it easy to encrypt distributed traffic and centralizes network administration of that traffic, there is no default security inspection built into it.
The SD-WAN policy rule also specifies a path quality profile of thresholds for latency, jitter, and packet loss.
With a zone-based firewall solution, zones are created for each part of the network that required different access/traffic control policies.
The top benefits of SD-WAN are its higher capacity bandwidth, centralized management, network visibility, multiple connection types.
SD-WAN is an acronym for software-defined networking in a wide area network. SD-WAN simplifies the management and operation of a WAN by decoupling the networking hardware from its control mechanism