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FortiGate-5140 fabric backplane communication | Fabric gigabit switching within a chassis |
The chassis can be connected to the network using any of the FortiGate-5001A front panel interfaces. You can also connect FortiSwitch-5003A front panel fabric interfaces to the network. You can also install FortiGate AMC modules in the FortiGate-5001A boards and connect the network to the AMC front panel interfaces. The AMC modules and the network connections are not shown in Figure 9.
For the FortiGate-5001A boards to use the fabric channel 1 for data communication you must show backplane interfaces on the FortiGate-5001A web-based manager and then configure firewall polices and routing for the fabric1 interfaces.
If the data traffic contains VLAN-tagged packets, you must add the VLAN tags to the FortiSwitch-5003A interfaces that will handle the VLAN-tagged traffic. For example, to allow VLAN tags 201 to 210 on slots 9, 11, and 13 from the FortiSwitch-5003A CLI enter:
config switch fabric-channel interface edit "slot-9"
set allowed-vlans 1,201-210 next
edit "slot-11"
set allowed-vlans 1,201-210 next
edit "slot-13"
set allowed-vlans 1,201-210 end
For more information about the FortiSwitch-5003A CLI, see “FortiSwitch-5003A CLI reference” on page 89.
Figure 10 shows a FortiGate-5140 chassis with FortiSwitch-5003A boards in hub/switch slots 1 and 2 and FortiGate-5001A and 5005FA2 boards in all of the other slots. The FortiGate boards can use fabric channels 1 and 2 for data communication among the FortiGate boards. In this configuration the FortiSwitch-5003A boards are operating as layer-2 switches for fabric channels 1 and 2 and the FortiGate boards are operating as typical standalone FortiGate units.
The chassis can be connected to the network using any of the FortiGate front panel interfaces. You can also connect FortiSwitch-5003A front panel fabric interfaces to the network. You can also install FortiGate AMC modules in the FortiGate-5001A boards and connect the network to the AMC front panel interfaces. The AMC modules and the network connections are not shown in Figure 10.
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