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Chronos Keeps Time: Building an Enterprise-Grade NTP Service with chrony and Integrating it with FortiGate
Why we chose chrony over ntpd and timesyncd, what CIS and Fortinet hardening guides say about NTP, a full build walkthrough, the deny-all ordering mistake every network engineer will make, and how to generate NTP keys that FortiOS will actually accept.
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Pairing a FortiGate and FortiSwitch the Right Way, Part 1: Get the Firmware Right First
Before a FortiGate and FortiSwitch will even talk to each other over FortiLink, both need to be on compatible, fully-patched firmware — and NTP/DNS need to be solid. Part 1 covers the upgrade plan we should have run before touching FortiLink at all.
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Pairing a FortiGate and FortiSwitch the Right Way, Part 2: FortiLink, and Where We Actually Went Wrong
The FortiLink handshake looks trivial in the docs: cable it in, authorize, done. Ours didn't go that way. Part 2 walks the correct pairing process, then dissects exactly where — and why — our first attempt stalled, with the redo plan for when we factory-reset both boxes.