Question 870
At Eastshore Energy, the network engineering team administers FortiGate-based protection for remote service offices and central management systems under requirements for fault-tolerant WAN links and policy audit trails. An independent validation is requested for: The FortiGate remote-site IPsec policy unintentionally applies internet source NAT to intersite traffic and breaks remote server identity checks. Which observed outcome BEST demonstrates that the intended correction works?
Explanation
Correct Answer
A remote application observes the expected original branch source address and an authorized tunnel session remains bidirectional. This outcome validates the intended correction for: The FortiGate remote-site IPsec policy unintentionally applies internet source NAT to intersite traffic and breaks remote server identity checks. The associated approved corrective action is: Remove unintended SNAT on the VPN policy or use the explicitly documented translated-address design if overlap requires it. The Eastshore Energy reviewer can therefore distinguish observable protection from an untested configuration claim.
Incorrect Answers
The tunnel rekeys during a controlled observation without repeated negotiation failures or loss outside the approved window. This would verify a separate corrective action: Review IKE and IPsec SA lifetimes and align supported rekey parameters on both FortiGate and partner endpoints. That separate change addresses: A long-lived IPsec tunnel drops intermittently during rekey because the peers use incompatible lifetime or rekey settings. It does not validate the current Eastshore Energy issue: The FortiGate remote-site IPsec policy unintentionally applies internet source NAT to intersite traffic and breaks remote server identity checks. The relevant acceptance evidence is: A remote application observes the expected original branch source address and an authorized tunnel session remains bidirectional.
A planned primary node failover restores protected site traffic within the measured approved recovery time without duplicate active tunnels. This would verify a separate corrective action: Document and implement supported FGCP and IPsec failover behavior and coordinate peer reconnection or SA recovery with recovery objectives. That separate change addresses: The active FortiGate node fails in an HA pair and site-to-site VPN sessions do not recover within the expected time because tunnel and HA roles were not tested. It does not validate the current Eastshore Energy issue: The FortiGate remote-site IPsec policy unintentionally applies internet source NAT to intersite traffic and breaks remote server identity checks. The relevant acceptance evidence is: A remote application observes the expected original branch source address and an authorized tunnel session remains bidirectional.
An approved FortiClient user authenticates and reaches the designated protected service without relying on unrelated site-to-site or unsupported tunnel assumptions. This would verify a separate corrective action: Choose a supported FortiOS 7.6.0 remote-access IPsec profile with user authentication and documented tunnel interface access policy. That separate change addresses: A remote-user VPN deployment relies on an unverified legacy tunnel setting while the new FortiGate access design requires a supportable user-authenticated IPsec VPN. It does not validate the current Eastshore Energy issue: The FortiGate remote-site IPsec policy unintentionally applies internet source NAT to intersite traffic and breaks remote server identity checks. The relevant acceptance evidence is: A remote application observes the expected original branch source address and an authorized tunnel session remains bidirectional.