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FortiGate-50A Installation and Configuration Guide Version 2.50

FortiGate-50A Installation and Configuration Guide 13

Introduction

The FortiGate-50A Antivirus Firewall is

an easy-to-deploy and easy-to-

administer solution that delivers

exceptional value and performance for

small office and home office (SOHO)

applications.

Your FortiGate-50A is a dedicated easily managed security device that delivers a full

suite of capabilities that include:

• application-level services such as virus protection and content filtering,

• network-level services such as firewall, intrusion detection, VPN, and traffic

shaping.

NAT/Route mode and Transparent mode

The FortiGate can operate in NAT/Route mode or Transparent mode.

NAT/Route mode

In NAT/Route mode, the FortiGate-50A is installed as a privacy barrier between the

internal network and the Internet. The firewall provides network address translation

(NAT) to protect the internal private network. You can control whether firewall policies

run in NAT mode or route mode. NAT mode policies route allowed connections

between firewall interfaces, performing network address translation to hide addresses

on the protected internal networks. Route mode policies route allowed connections

between firewall interfaces without performing network address translation.

Transparent mode

Transparent Mode provides firewall protection to a pre-existing network with public

addresses. The internal and external network interfaces of the FortiGate unit must be

in the same subnet and the FortiGate unit can be inserted into your network at any

point without the need to make any changes to your network.

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Fortinet FortiGate 50A User Manual Page 13