Example active-active redundant link configuration

FortiGate-5140 fabric backplane communication

edit vlan_fab2_105

set interface fabric2 set vlanid 105

set vdom root etc...

next

edit vlan_fab2_106

set interface fabric2 set vlanid 106

set vdom root etc...

end

You should also configure the FortiGate-5001A boards to send heartbeat packets over the fabric1 and fabric2 channels so that the FortiSwitch-5003A board can verify that the FortiGate-5001A boards are functioning. Each FortiGate-5001A board sends 10 heartbeat packets per second from each fabric interface. The packets are type 255 bridge protocol data unit (BPDU) packets. From the FortiGate-5001A CLI enter:

config system global

set fortiswitch-heartbeat enable end

Example active-active redundant link configuration

You can make the previous example an active-active redundant link configuration that sends all traffic from the internal networks to one FortiSwitch-5003A board and all traffic from the external networks to the other FortiSwitch-5003A board by changing the priorities of the spanning tree instances added to the FortiSwitch-5003A boards. No other configuration changes are required.

To send all traffic from the internal networks to the FortiSwitch-5003A board in slot 1 configure the spanning tree instances on this board with a lower priority value for instance 3 which is used for VLAN 103 and 104 packets.

config switch fabric-channel stp instance edit 3

set priority 4096

set vlan-range 103-104 next

edit 5

set priority 40960

set vlan-range 105-106 end

To send all traffic from the external networks to the FortiSwitch-5003A board in slot 2 configure the spanning tree instances on this board with a lower priority value for instance 5 which is used for VLAN 105 and 106 packets.

config switch fabric-channel stp instance edit 3

set priority 40960

set vlan-range 103-104 next

 

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