Your forte gate can operate in two operating modes.
The first one is the Nat mode the network address translation mode and the second one is the transparent
mode.
What are the differences.
Well if you remember your routing and switching lessons it would become simple in that mode your 48
acts as an oversight layer treat device.
It is actually a router.
Each interface has its own IP address and its own broadcast domain in a transparent mode.
Your 48 acts as a switch interfaces doesn't have any IP addresses and frames are being forwarded according
to the MAC address of their destination.
Your 48 splits the network into multiple collusion domain.
Now let's see how we can change our 48 from and not operating mode to a transparent operating mode.
We'll use the command line
config sys settings and if we will use this show full command we will see that currently our operational
mode is not if we wish to change it we'll use the set up mode and we can switch between that and transparent
mode.
We will use a new virtual machine that we will configure in transparent mode to learn more of its transparent
mode capabilities.
When do we use transparent mode.
And when do we use in that mode.
Well most of the times you will use these in that mode.
Your 48 will act as an always silent treat device where each interface has its own IP address and each
packet is being sent according to the routing table.
Now let's look at the routing table we'll use the get router info routing table all
and we can see that we have one static round which will round any packet that doesn't have a route in
the routing table to the when one interface.
We also have two other connected networks that are connected directly to our 40 gate so that happens
on in that mode.
But what happens on a transparent mode on a transparent node.
Your 40 gate delivers the frames according to the MAC address table.
When we use a transparent mode.
We use it to scan the traffic between different segments of our network without any interference to
the current routing that is already being happening on the network.
That is one of the reasons that we use transparent mode.
There are cases where we split our network into different segments and between each segment we deploy
a 40 gate 48 will still scan the traffic will still use security profiles will still use its next generation
firewall capabilities such as IP address and application control to block or to allow the traffic but
it will not interfere with the organization routing that is already being used there.