FortiSwitch-5003A and 5003 Fabric and Base Backplane Communications Guide
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Contents
FortiGate-5050 fabric backplane communication ........ 47
Fabric gigabit switching within a chassis..................................................... 48
Fabric channel connections between FortiSwitch-5003A boards.............. 50
Fabric gigabit switching between chassis.................................................... 50
Fabric gigabit switching to the network........................................................ 52
Fabric 10-gigabit switching within a chassis................................................ 54
Fabric channel layer-2 link aggregation........................................................ 56
Fabric channel layer-2 link aggregation and redundancy........................... 59
Example active-passive redundant link configuration................................ 60
External switch configuration............... ....................................................... 61
Example configuration for the FortiSwitch-5003A board in slot 1. .............. 62
Example configuration for the FortiSwitch-5003A board in slot 2. .............. 64
Example FortiGate-5001A configuration..................................................... 65
Example active-active redundant link configuration................................... 66
Verifying the spanning tree configuration of a FortiSwitch-5003A
board in slot 1 ............................................................................................. 66
FortiGate-5140 and 5050 base backplane
communication................................................................ 67
Base channel connections between FortiSwitch-5003A boards................ 68
Base backplane HA configurations..................................... .......................... 68
Two FortiSwitch boards per chassis............. .............................................. 69
Heartbeat failover between channels.......................................................... 71
One FortiSwitch board per chassis................................................... .......... 73
Choosing the slot position........................................................................... 77
Slot position and HA heartbeat interface precedence................................. 77
Base backplane data configurations............................................................. 79
Connecting FortiGate boards to each other................................................ 79
Connecting FortiGate boards to the network... ........................................... 80
FortiGate-5020 base backplane communication.......... 81
HA configurations...... ..................................................................................... 81
Heartbeat failover between channels.......................................................... 82
Inter-chassis HA configurations...................................... .............................. 84
Network configurations.... .............................................................................. 86
FortiSwitch-5003A CLI reference ................................... 89
Connecting to the CLI....................................... .............................................. 89
Connecting to the FortiSwitch-5003A console........................................... . 89
Setting administrative access on the mgmt interface.................................. 90
Connecting to the FortiSwitch-5003A CLI using SSH................................. 91