Description
This article describes that with the firewall policy rule setting 'set schedule-timeout enable', a FortiGate immediately forces the session to end when the 'Stop Time' of a recurring 'schedule' object is reached.
Additional configuration steps are required in order to keep the session active until is finished or expired.
Solution
Disabling the schedule-timeout would allow the session to remain open after the schedule has expired. The session will end by time-out or if any FIN or RST are seen.
Through the CLI, the firewall policy firewall-session-dirty option is only available after changing the system settings:
1) Edit system settings:
# config system settings
set firewall-session-dirty check-policy-option
end
2) Edit the firewall policy rule:
# config firewall policy
edit <ID of the policy>
set schedule-timeout disabled
set firewall-session-dirty check-new
end
The status of the session will change to 'persistent' once the end time of the schedule is reached and the traffic continues flowing.
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