When upgrading HP Comware switches that are part of an IRF stack, you want to use In Service Software Upgrade (ISSU). This allows you to do a rolling upgrade of the firmware while limiting the impact to just 1 switch in the stack. ISSU will reboot 1 switch in the stack, wait for it to come back up and then moves on to the next switch. Types of ISSU There are 3 types of ISSU:...
If you’ve ever had the “pleasure” of building an IPSec tunnel between 2 endpoints from different vendors, you’ll know how smooth that usually goes. Today I was building a tunnel between a Fortigate 70D and an Axsguard Gatekeeper, as you can guess, things didn’t go as planned. Fortigate Let’s start by creating the tunnel on the Fortigate. Create a new tunnel and select the Custom VPN Tunnel template. Next, fill in all the phase 1 settings....
While setting up a new Fortigate 30D for a client, I wanted to add a new VLAN for the guest Wi-Fi network. Usually, you just go into Network - Interfaces and add a new Interface there. On the 30D however, this option wasn’t there. After changing the device from switch mode to interface mode and back, I figured you can’t do it in the GUI. The only way to do it on a 30D is by using the CLI....