FCP FortiGate Administrator 7.6 Practice Test

Local-out traffic is traffic that the FortiGate itself generates and sends out to the network. This includes things like a ping from the firewall, management or monitoring messages, log forwarding, or keepalive/heartbeat packets. It’s distinct from user traffic passing through the firewall, traffic originating from the Internet reaching the firewall, or traffic between internal hosts. So the best description is traffic generated by the firewall itself—the example of a ping from the firewall illustrates that perfectly.