Chapter 30 – WAN Optimization, Web Cache, Explicit
Chapter 30 – WAN Optimization, Web Cache, Explicit Proxy, and WCCP Toggling Disk Usage for logging or wan-opt Both logging and WAN Optimization use hard disk space to save data. For FortiOS 5.4 you...
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Distributing WAN optimization, explicit proxy, and web caching to multiple CPU Cores By default WAN optimization, explicit proxy and web caching is handled by half of the CPU cores in a FortiGate unit....
View ArticleWan Optimization
Wan Optimization The FortiOS Handbook chapter contains the following sections: Example network topologies provides an overview of FortiGate WAN optimization best practices and technologies and some of...
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Other new explicit proxy features New explicit proxy firewall address types (284753) New explicit proxy firewall address types improve granularity over header matching for explicit web proxy...
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Example network topologies
Example network topologies FortiGate WAN optimization consists of a number of techniques that you can apply to improve the efficiency of communication across your WAN. These techniques include protocol...
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Web caching topologies
Web caching topologies FortiGate web caching can be added to any security policy and any HTTP or HTTPS traffic accepted by that security policy can be cached on the FortiGate unit hard disk. This...
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Configuring WAN optimization
Configuring WAN optimization This chapter describes FortiGate WAN optimization client server architecture and other concepts you need to understand to be able to configure FortiGate WAN optimization....
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WAN optimization peers
WAN optimization peers The client-side and server-side FortiGate units are called WAN optimization peers because all of the FortiGate units in a WAN optimization network have the same peer relationship...
View ArticleManual (peer-to-peer) and active-passive WAN optimization
Manual (peer-to-peer) and active-passive WAN optimization You can create manual (peer-to-peer) and active-passive WAN optimization configurations. Manual (peer to peer) configurations Manual...
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WAN optimization profiles
WAN optimization profiles Use WAN optimization profiles to apply WAN optimization techniques to traffic to be optimized. In a WAN optimization profile you can select the protocols to be optimized and...
View ArticleProcessing non-HTTP sessions accepted by a WAN optimization profile with HTTP...
Processing non-HTTP sessions accepted by a WAN optimization profile with HTTP optimization From the CLI, you can use the following command to configure how to process non-HTTP sessions when a rule...
View ArticleProtocol optimization
Protocol optimization Protocol optimization techniques optimize bandwidth use across the WAN. These techniques can improve the efficiency of communication across the WAN optimization tunnel by reducing...
View ArticleProtocol optimization and MAPI
Protocol optimization and MAPI By default the MAPI service uses port number 135 for RPC port mapping and may use random ports for MAPI messages. The random ports are negotiated through sessions using...
View ArticleByte caching
Byte caching Byte caching breaks large units of application data (for example, a file being downloaded from a web page) into small chunks of data, labelling each chunk of data with a hash of the chunk...
View ArticleWAN optimization transparent mode
WAN optimization transparent mode WAN optimization is transparent to users. This means that with WAN optimization in place, clients connect to servers in the same way as they would without WAN...
View ArticleFortiClient WAN optimization
FortiClient WAN optimization PCs running the FortiClient application are client-side peers that initiate WAN optimization tunnels with server- side peer FortiGate units. However, you can have an...
View ArticleOperating modes and VDOMs
Operating modes and VDOMs To use WAN optimization, the FortiGate units can operate in either NAT/Route or Transparent mode. The client- side and server-side FortiGate units do not have to be operating...
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WAN optimization tunnels
WAN optimization tunnels All optimized traffic passes between the FortiGate units or between a FortiClient peer and a FortiGate unit over a WAN optimization tunnel. Traffic in the tunnel can be sent in...
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WAN optimization and user and device identity policies, load balancing and traffic shaping Please note the following about WAN optimization and firewall policies: WAN optimization is not compatible...
View ArticleWAN optimization and HA
WAN optimization and HA You can configure WAN optimization on a FortiGate HA cluster. The recommended best practice HA configuration for WAN optimization is active-passive mode. When the cluster is...
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