Packet Capture

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In this video, you will learn how to use packet capture to monitor traffic passing through your FortiGate. Intercepting and capturing packets can be a useful troubleshooting tool, allowing you to analyze traffic in detail that has passed through your FortiGate. You can easily create customized packet filters and run them when you need more informat...

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Fortinet Fortigate Cookbook

Course

Time

1 hour 35 minutes

Difficulty

Beginner

CEU/CPE

2

Video Description

In this video, you will learn how to use packet capture to monitor traffic passing through your FortiGate. Intercepting and capturing packets can be a useful troubleshooting tool, allowing you to analyze traffic in detail that has passed through your FortiGate. You can easily create customized packet filters and run them when you need more information. Visit Fortinet's documentation library at http://docs.fortinet.com

Video Transcription

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In this video, you will learn how to use packet capture to monitor traffic passing through your forte gate.

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Intercepting and capturing packets could be useful troubleshooting tool, allowing you to analyze traffic in detail

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in 40 US You can easily create customized packet filters and run them whenever you need in depth information about your traffic.

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Open the fourth gate interface and go to system network packet capture to create a new filter.

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Select Create new.

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The simplest filter that you can create captures a number of packets that passed through a selected interface. Select an interface,

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enter a number

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and save your filter.

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Create another filter

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and select enable filters.

00:57

You can monitor an interface for all packets that have a source or destination within a certain i p range. By entering that I p range as the host,

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save your filter and create another

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for this one.

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Set the ports to port 80 and 4 43 To capture all http and https packets sent through the interface,

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create one more filter

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and enter 1 32 as the protocol to capture all S C. T P packets that passed through the selected interface

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running multiple packet capture filters at once can affect your Forte Gate unit's performance.

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Select the play icon on your filters to start them capturing packets.

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Once the maximum number of packets has been reached, the filter will stop collecting them.

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You can stop and restart them at any time,

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and you can download the saved peek at files, which can be opened with a pea cap file viewer such as wire shark.

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Thank you for watching. If you need for the details, you can visit docks dot ford net dot com toe access are complete Documentation library. Also check out our new cookbook site at cookbook dot for dinner at dot com for more tutorials like this one.

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