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I have an SBS 2003 runing Exchange with SMTP not POP3. I have 2 WAN connections one over DSL other over Cable. Can the SMTP from the server switch from one WAN connection to the other automatically?
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In the Fortigate firewall configuration you can set it up to load balance the traffic between each WAN port equally. However if your Fortigate is set as your DHCP server you cannot determine which computer uses what WAN connection.

To properly load balance the traffic in the Fortigate configuration under the 'Router' > 'Static' configuration page you should see two settings for WAN1 and WAN2 just make sure you have the distance configured with equal settings. For example the default in the Fortigate is a distance of 10 if you configure both WAN ports with the same distance it will perform an equal load balance over each WAN device.  Then in the case one of your ISP connections goes down for any reason, the Fortigate will know the link is down and send all traffic over the WAN port.  
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I can not create 2 virtual ip's with the same port. I get the error "A duplicate entry already exists."
What am i doing wrong?