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IPv6 support

IPv6 support

When the operating mode is Reverse Proxy, Offline Protection, or Transparent Inspection, the features below support IPv6-to-IPv6 forwarding. The features below also support NAT64 to handle environments in which legacy back-end equipment supports only IPv4.

Features not yet supported are:

If a policy has any virtual servers or server pools that contain physical or domain servers with IPv6 addresses, it does not apply these features, even if they are selected.
  • Shared IP
  • Policy bypasses for known search engines
  • Firewall
  • Log-based reports
  • Alert email
  • Syslog and FortiAnalyzer IP addresses
  • NTP
  • FTP immediate/scheduled
  • SCEP
  • Anti-defacement
  • HA/Configuration sync
  • exec restore
  • exec backup
  • exec traceroute
  • exec telnet

IPv6 support

When the operating mode is Reverse Proxy, Offline Protection, or Transparent Inspection, the features below support IPv6-to-IPv6 forwarding. The features below also support NAT64 to handle environments in which legacy back-end equipment supports only IPv4.

Features not yet supported are:

If a policy has any virtual servers or server pools that contain physical or domain servers with IPv6 addresses, it does not apply these features, even if they are selected.
  • Shared IP
  • Policy bypasses for known search engines
  • Firewall
  • Log-based reports
  • Alert email
  • Syslog and FortiAnalyzer IP addresses
  • NTP
  • FTP immediate/scheduled
  • SCEP
  • Anti-defacement
  • HA/Configuration sync
  • exec restore
  • exec backup
  • exec traceroute
  • exec telnet