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FortiGate features and capabilities matrix - NAT vs Transparent mode
| Feature/capability | NAT | Transparent | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicast Routing / Policy Based routing |
YES | NO | |
| VIP / IP pools / NAT | YES | YES | Configurable from CLI only in transparent mode |
| Multicast routing | YES | NO - Options available to forward multicast packets | |
| L2 forwarding | NO | YES | In Transparent mode, other frames than IP can be forwarded but with no UTM processing. |
| Firewall (packet filtering / NAT / Authentication) | YES | YES | |
| IPv6 capable | YES | YES | |
| Traffic shaping - TOS classification | YES | YES | |
| Hardware acceleration | YES | YES | |
| IPS | YES | YES | |
| Anti-Virus | YES | YES | |
| WEB filtering and Fortiguard WEB filtering | YES | YES | |
| Mail filtering and Anti-Spam | YES | YES | |
| Other UTM features (IM/P2P, DLP) | YES | YES | |
| IPsec gateway | YES | YES - Policy based mode only | |
| SSL gateway | YES | NO | |
| High-Availability (HA) - Virtual Cluster | YES | YES | |
| 802.3ad (LACP / port aggregation) | YES | YES | |
| HA port redundancy | YES | YES | FortiGate hardware dependent |
| 802.1q - VLAN trunking | YES | YES | |
| 802.1d - Spanning Tree | NO | NO - option to forward BPDUs | |
| Logging and reporting (FAMS, syslog or FortiAnalyzer) | YES | YES | |
| Managed by FortiManager | YES | YES |
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