How to set up your FortiWAN
Configuring Network Interface (Network Setting)
DHCP
FortiWAN acts a DHCP server on the specified LAN port or DMZ port if checkbox
Enable DHCP
is checked. FortiWAN
receives DHCP requests and responds related information from/to hosts (DHCP clients) in the subnets connect to the
LAN or DMZ ports.
Domain Name Server
The DNS that FortiWAN responds to the DHCP clients within the DHCP
OFFER messages if the clients are sat to automatically get DNS
information through DHCP.
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Single DNS server:
the DNS servers defined in
System > Network
Setting > DNS Server > IPv4 Domain Name Server
are listed here
for your options.
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ALL:
answer the DHCP clients with all the defined DNS servers
information.
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None:
answer the DHCP clients without containing any DNS server
information.
This option is only available for LAN private subnet. For the DMZ-sided
subnets (hosts in the two subnets are supposed to be deployed with
public IP addresses), system behaves answering the DHCP clients with
all the defined DNZ servers information.
Domain Name Suffix
The domain name suffix that FortiWAN responds to the DHCP clients
within the DHCP OFFER messages if the clients are sat to automatically
get DNS information from DHCP.
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Single domain name suffix:
the domain name suffixes defined in
System > Network Setting > DNS Server > Domain Name Suffix
are listed here for your options.
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ALL:
answer the DHCP clients with all the defined domain name suffixes.
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None:
answer the DHCP clients without containing any domain name
suffixes.
This option is only available for LAN private subnet.
DHCP Range
The address pools that DHCP server assigns and manages IP addresses
from. Define the IP ranges by specifying IPv4 Starting Address and IPv4
Ending Address.
Static Mapping
DHCP server assigns and manages IP addresses according to clients'
MAC addresses. An IP address that is mapped to a MAC address is only
available to the client with the MAC address. It will not be assigned to
other client even it is idle. Define the mapping by specifying MAC
Address and the correspondent IPv4 Address.
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