Friday, October 27, 2023

Forticlient vs Globalprotect differences

 In this blog I will discuss a few items that different  between FTNT and PANW with regards to VPN clients


1: GlobalProetct uses a portal with a list of various gateways. The gateways are where your SSL or IPSEC VPN clients are terminated to. So think of it as a distributed gateway

Fortinet is manual you have to define each gateway

2: With Globalprotect if you need to use a radius server that is not using the MGMT interfaces and have defined local admins authentications with an existing radius server, you can have service for radius using a data plane interface

For Fortinet you can source the radius server from any interface 

3: GlobalProtect does not support Linux/Chrome/mobile devices without a license for globalprotect gateway

FortiGate does not care it supports numerous clients with no additional license

4: GlobalProtect SSL VPN client does not support DTLS

Forticlient, SSLvpn can use TCP or UDP

5: Globalprotect has a fallback from IPSEC ( default ) to SSL if the former has quality issues

Forticlient has no dual-mode fallback









NSE ( network security expert) and Route/Switching Engineer
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