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Ballzack
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Fortigate 100D blocking SFTP to remote server

Good day

 

I have the following issue:

 

The Fortigate is causing the Filezilla SFTP connection to fail to the public ip 105.28.100.177 over port 990.

The connection needs to be established from an internal server.

The last 2 log entries on Filezilla reads:

 

Status: Connection established, initializing TLS...

Error:   Could not connect to server.

 

I have created a policy for the internal server, allowing access to all destinations, all ports, and removed all security profiles.

The logs shows that traffic is being allowed through.

 

I get the same result when testing from a desktop on the network.

 

I can connect to the site successfully when testing from outside of the network or over 3G.

 

Not sure where to go from here.

Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks.

 

 

 

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ede_pfau
SuperUser
SuperUser

hi,

 

and welcome to the forums.

 

Just a speculation but if you are using FOS v5.4.x or up, open the CLI and

- config sys global

set strong dis

end

 

and try again. If I'm right I will explain it.


Ede

"Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!"
Ede"Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!"
Ballzack

Thanks.

 

Unfortunately no luck after running the command.

Ballzack

I am not an expert but do you think this might be an issue with the Fortigate's session-helper?

Ballzack

Just updating the resolution. 

 

Pushed the connection over another WAN interface.

Issue was ISP related.

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