There is sometimes a confusion between the terms “forwarding” and “routing”. These two functions should not be taking place at the same time. It is mentioned that multicast-forward should be enabled when the FortiGate unit is in NAT mode and that this will forward any multicast packet to all interfaces. However, this parameter should NOT be enabled when the FortiGate unit operates as a multicast router (i.e. with a routing protocol enabled. It should only be enabled when there is no routing protocols activated. |