General

This section includes information about general network related new features:

• Configure the VRRP hello timer in milliseconds

• FortiGate as a recursive DNS resolver

• BGP network prefixes utilize firewall addresses and groups

• Support UDP-Lite traffic

• Custom LSA refresh rates and fast link-down detection on VLAN interfaces for OSPF

• Filter NetFlow sampling

• SOCKS proxy supports UTM scanning, authentication, and forward server

• Implement the interface name as the source IP address in RADIUS, LDAP, and DNS configurations

• Include groups in PIM join/prune messages

• Automatic LTE connection establishment

• Netflow sampling

• Support source-IP interface for system DNS database

• Extended VRF ID range for enhanced network scalability 7.6.1

• Enhanced PIM support for VRFs 7.6.1

• Including denied multicast sessions in the session table 7.6.1

• Support specific VRF ID for local-out traffic 7.6.1

• Support source IP interface for system DNS 7.6.1

• Improvements to IPsec monitoring 7.6.1

• Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) now available for FG-80F-POE and FG-20xF models 7.6.3

• Application and network performance monitoring with FortiTelemetry 7.6.3

• Fortinet Support Tool for capturing incidents

• Support configuring users and groups in policy routes 7.6.3

• Support additional NIC interface diagnostics 7.6.4

• Auto speed negotiation for 10G Base-T on FortiGate 100xF devices 7.6.4

• Add support for 802.1X on a virtual switch when added to a software switch 7.6.5