r/fortinet is a subreddit with 74k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses fortigate, looking for, struggling with, vpn, and frustrating, and they frequently recommend/review firewalls and firewall.
Discussing all things Fortinet.
Popular Themes in r/fortinet
#1
Solution Requests
: "alternative for the super buggy FortiClient?"
5 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "Is FSSO widely used at enterprise scale? Looking for real-world feedback and lab setup tips."
3 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "New Fortigate 701G firewall works normally for a few minutes after bootup, but then suddenly stops passing traffic. The interfaces won't even respond to pings. Has anyone else had a similar experience ?"
2 posts
#4
Ideas
: "I got tired of typing the same diagnose commands on every FortiGate, so I built a little dashboard. It's open source."
2 posts
Popular Topics in r/fortinet
#1
Fortigate
: "I got tired of typing the same diagnose commands on every Fortigate, so I built a little dashboard. It's open source."
83 posts
#2
Looking For
39 posts
#3
Struggling With
35 posts
#4
Vpn
: "FortiClient 8.0.0 is out - still no Vpn-only"
17 posts
#5
Frustrating
10 posts
#6
Forticlient
: "Forticlient 8.0.0 is out - still no VPN-only"
6 posts
#7
Firewall
6 posts
#8
Credentials
6 posts
#9
Vlan
: "FortiNAC / AD integrated groups not assigning Vlans automatically"
6 posts
#10
Issue
5 posts
Products Discussed in r/fortinet
Flair Used in r/fortinet
#1
Question ❓
: "My company wants to drop Forti products because of how horrible the purchase and renewal experience is. You?"
55 posts
#2
Bug 🪲
: "(Temp) Fix for Fortinet DoT DNS over TLS unreachable on 7.4.10 - 7.4.12 issue"
5 posts
#3
News 🚨
: "FortiAP with display"
4 posts
#4
Solved ✅
: "FYI - DNS over TLS (TLS / TCP/853) stopped working since 4:14AM"
2 posts
#5
NFR 💡
: "[Discussion] Building an Open-Source Dashboard using FortiOS API – Anyone interested or already done this?"
1 post
Member Growth in r/fortinet
Yearly
+12k members(18.8%)
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Last updated: July 24, 2026