How-to: Factory reset a FortiGate

We get dozens of FortiGates back from evaluations and the standard way of factory reseting the configuration is by running the command execute factoryreset.

This will reset the full configuration back to factory default.

The problem is that it does nothing to the flash, and sometimes clients make revision configuration saves to the flash.

How-to: Route all internet traffic through one link and all VPN traffic through another on a FortiGate

Recently one of our customers configured a FG60D with two ADSL WAN links (both on the same provider, going to the same default gateway). They wanted all internet traffic to go out through WAN1 and all RDP and VPN traffic to go out through WAN2.

The problem was when they created the policy based route (PBR) for all outbound internet via WAN1, it also sent the traffic destined for the VPN through the same interface and thus failed.