NSE7 Advanced Networking and SD-WAN Practice Question
A FortiGate administrator runs 'diagnose sys session list' and sees a session for which the destination interface is 'sdwan'. The session is marked with 'state=01000048'. What does this state indicate about the session?
⚠ Common exam trap
The trap here is that candidates often misinterpret the 'sdwan' interface as a physical interface that forwards traffic directly, when in fact it is a logical placeholder that triggers a hold state until the SD-WAN rule selects a specific member interface.
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The session is being held until the SD-WAN load balancing decision is made
The session state value 0x01000048 corresponds to the flag 'SES_STATE_SD_WAN_HOLD' in FortiOS. This flag indicates that the session is temporarily held in a pending state while the SD-WAN load balancing decision is being made. The session will not be forwarded until the SD-WAN rule selects the appropriate member interface, preventing premature routing before the load balancing logic completes.
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The session has completed load balancing and is being forwarded out the sdwan interface
Why it's wrong here
If completed, the state would be different.
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