Hi Mark,

Two things I suggest there, one is look for ICSA ipsec cert, at least a 3rd party has tested the IPSEC implementation of a vendors product. FortiGate is certified in this area.

2nd I have a enterprise in Akld, where they ran FortiGate at HQ and interop with almost all vendors you can imagine, Watchguard, CP, ASA, etc.

Also Fortinet's KB online has a list of articles of what we are compatible with.

Br,

Jack

Fortinet

From: Mark Goldfinch <mark.goldfinch@modicagroup.com>
Date: Thursday, 29 August 2013 4:32 PM
To: Joel Wir?mu Pauling <joel@aenertia.net>
Cc: nznog <nznog@list.waikato.ac.nz>
Subject: Re: [nznog] IPSec vendor interoperability war stories

On 29 August 2013 16:15, Joel Wir?mu Pauling <joel@aenertia.net> wrote:

I know this is SOT; but have you considered using a different tunnel tech or are you completely married to IPSEC?

I have similar experiences in the past - i've found that for a large chunk of use cases switching to OpenVPN on an commodity box sitting at the edge is far more simple and reliable (and has a number of performance gains).

Yes we are somewhat married to requiring good cross-vendor IPSec support. We already utilise OpenVPN where we can, our experience has been similar to yours.

Thanks,

Mark Goldfinch | Systems Team Leader

MODICA GROUP

nz: +64 4 498 6000

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