My client is using Fortinet to connect to their server. However, they sent me a Fortinet client for Windows 😅. I Googled it and found a way to install Fortinet on my Ubuntu, but it seems like their repository is down at the time of writing this post.
Out of curiosity, I wondered if someone had already dockerized Fortinet. And yes! I found a working and well-maintained version on Github.
Here’s how I set up Fortinet on my Ubuntu using Docker:
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/poyaz/docker-forticlient
cd docker-forticlient
cp env/vpn/.env.example env/vpn/.env
nano env/vpn/.env # adjust VPN_ADDR, VPN_USER, VPN_PASS
docker-compose \
-f docker-compose.yml \
-f docker/docker-compose.env.yml \
-f docker/docker-compose.publish.yml \
up \
--force-recreateSometimes, Fortinet seems to hang up for no apparent reason. In such cases, we need to
--force-recreatethe container to restart it.
Now, all I need to do is connect to my client’s server via the proxy exposed from the Docker, which is 127.0.0.1:1080.
ssh -o ProxyCommand="nc -X 5 -x 127.0.0.1:1080 %h %p" \
[email protected]To make things easier, I created a Makefile as shortcut:
up:
docker-compose \
-f docker-compose.yml \
-f docker/docker-compose.env.yml \
-f docker/docker-compose.publish.yml \
up \
--force-recreate
down:
docker-compose \
-f docker-compose.yml \
-f docker/docker-compose.env.yml \
-f docker/docker-compose.publish.yml \
down
ssh-server-1:
ssh -o ProxyCommand="nc -X 5 -x 127.0.0.1:1080 %h %p" [email protected]
ssh-server-2:
ssh -o ProxyCommand="nc -X 5 -x 127.0.0.1:1080 %h %p" [email protected]Then you can call it like this:
make up
make down
make ssh-server-1
make ssh-server-2That’s it 🎉