Break "internal" default members remotely on 50E

[marlonmac]

Hey guys.

I have a forti 50E fully configured and running on one of our sites, and now i have a need to set up one of the LAN ports as WAN, but the problem is i only have remote access to it via our vpn. I have been reading a bunch of threads here on how to do it, but apparently no matter the method, i have to purge some of the configs, thus losing access to it remotely.

Is there a way to make these changes without losing my remote connection to it?

[rwpatterson]

For what it is worth, if you are not configuring anything on the WAN connection, you should not lose connectivity. I have often changed inside configurations remotely CAREFULLY without error. I have even gone into the spare DMZ port with a BS IP address and configured the firewall that way since I wasn't making any changes to the port, I never lost connectivity. The key word here is careful.