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FortiGate Virtual Wire Pair Setup Guide

The document discusses virtual wire pairs, which allow traffic between two interfaces without IP addressing and are useful for non-standard MAC address topologies. It describes how to create a virtual wire pair in the FortiGate interface settings and configure a policy to allow traffic between the paired interfaces.

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FortiGate Virtual Wire Pair Setup Guide

The document discusses virtual wire pairs, which allow traffic between two interfaces without IP addressing and are useful for non-standard MAC address topologies. It describes how to create a virtual wire pair in the FortiGate interface settings and configure a policy to allow traffic between the paired interfaces.

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Virtual Wire Pair:

o Two interfaces that do not have IP addressing & are treated similar to a transparent mode.
o All traffic received by one interface in virtual wire pair can only be forwarded out the other.
o In FortiGate Unit Firewall provided that a virtual wire pair firewall policy allows this traffic.
o Virtual wire pairs are useful for topologies where MAC addresses do not behave normally.
o Virtual Wire Pairing can be used for FortiGate in both the NAT and Transparent modes.

Go to Network > Interfaces and select Create New > Virtual Wire Pair. Select the interfaces to
add to the virtual wire pair. If desired, enable Wildcard VLAN. Select OK.

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After created Virtual Wire Pair look like below in interfaces.

Go to System >Feature Visibility set the Feature Set to WF, go down Additional Features and
enable Policy Advanced Options.

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Go to Policy & Objects > IPv4 Virtual Wire Pair Policy, Select Create New. Select the direction
that traffic is allowed to flow. Configure the other firewall options as desired. Select OK.

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PC1 IP configuration.

Server 1 Configuration .

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