How to allow traffic DHCP traffic in Fortigate transparent mode
Thanks to: https://community.fortinet.com/ Technical Note: How to allow the flow of transit DHCP traffic in transparent mode Description By default, when the FortiGate firewall is in the transparent mode, it drops all broadcast traffic except ARP. This will result in the dropping of the DHCP broadcast traffic by default with the following entries being seen in the debugs: (DMZ-MOBILE) # id=20085 trace_id=1738 func=print_pkt_detail line=4373 msg="vd-DMZ-MOBILE received a packet(proto=17, 0.0.0.0:68->255.255.255.255:67) from port3." id=20085 trace_id=1738 func=init_ip_session_common line=4522 msg="allocate a new session-000476b2" id=20085 trace_id=1738 func=__br_forward_check line=166 msg="drop broadcast: in: port3, out: port2 " Solution Diagram Clients ---->---- Switch ---->---- port3 - FortiGate - port2 ---->---- DHCP server To enable the flow of transit DHCP traffic in transparent mode it is necessary to: 1) Enable broadcast-forwar...