Fortinet NSE7_NST-7.2 Exam With Confidence Using Practice Dumps

Understanding OSPF Roles:

In OSPF (Open Shortest Path First), routers can have different roles: Designated Router (DR), Backup Designated Router (BDR), and DROther. These roles help manage and optimize the OSPF network traffic.

DR and BDR are elected to minimize the number of adjacencies and reduce the amount of routing information exchange.

DROther routers are neither DR nor BDR but can still participate in the OSPF network by maintaining adjacencies with DR and BDR.

Analyzing the Exhibit:

The exhibit shows the OSPF neighbor states for the local FortiGate.

Neighbor ID 0.0.0.1 is in the state Full/DR (Designated Router).

Neighbor ID 0.0.0.3 is in the state Full/DROther (DROther).

Neighbor ID 0.0.0.10 has no specific designation, implying it is neither DR nor BDR.

Conclusion:

Since the local FortiGate shows neighbors in Full/DR and Full/DROther states and itself does not have a state of DROther, it can be concluded that the local FortiGate is not a DROther.

References:

Fortinet Community: Understanding OSPF roles and states​(Welcome to the Fortinet Community!)​​(cyruslab)​.

Fortinet Documentation: OSPF neighbor states and elections​(Fortinet Docs)​.

RTT (Round Trip Time):

RTT in the context of the FortiGuard server list indicates the time it takes for a request to be sent to a FortiGuard server and for a response to be received.

This metric helps determine the latency between the FortiGate device and the FortiGuard servers, which is crucial for ensuring efficient and quick updates and responses for services like web filtering and antivirus updates.

Server Selection:

The FortiGate device uses RTT values to prioritize servers. Servers with lower RTT values are preferred as they respond faster, ensuring minimal delay in processing requests.

This improves the overall performance of FortiGuard services by reducing the time it takes to communicate with the servers.

References:

Fortinet Community: Troubleshooting FortiGuard server connections and RTT values​(Welcome to the Fortinet Community!)​​(Fortinet Docs)​.

Fortinet Documentation: FortiGuard server settings and RTT explanation​(Welcome to the Fortinet Community!)​​(Fortinet Docs)​.

The session table entry provided shows detailed information about a specific network session passing through the FortiGate device. From the session details, we can see that the session has various attributes such as state, protocol, policy, and inspection details.

The session state (proto_state=11) indicates that the session is being actively processed and inspected.

Thenpd_state=00000000suggests that the session is being handled by the CPU rather than offloaded to a Network Processor (NP).

The session is marked for security profile inspection, evident from the detailed byte/packet counts and other session parameters.

From these indicators, it's clear that FortiGate is using its CPU to perform security profile inspection on this session rather than simply forwarding the traffic without inspection or relying solely on IPS inspection.

References

Fortinet Documentation on Session Table

Fortinet Community Discussion on Session Table