Company A and Company B each have their own internal networks and their own ISPs. They share a FortiGate unit that is configured with two separate VDOMs, with each VDOM running in NAT/Route mode enabling separate configuration of network protection profiles. Each ISP is connected to a different interface on the FortiGate unit.

This network example was chosen to illustrate one of the most typical VDOM configurations.

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