Fortinet 5003A manual Fabric gigabit switching to the network

Fabric gigabit switching to the network FortiGate-5050 fabric backplane communication

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 3, 4, and 5 and the F1 front panel interface, from the FortiSwitch-5003A CLI enter:

config switch fabric-channel interface edit "slot-3"

set allowed-vlans 1,201-210 next

edit "slot-4"

set allowed-vlans 1,201-210 next

edit "slot-5"

set allowed-vlans 1,201-210 next

edit "f1"

set allowed-vlans 1,201-210 end

Fabric gigabit switching to the network

You can use the FortiSwitch-5003A fabric front panel interfaces to connect the fabric channel of a chassis to your network. Most often you would do this for data communication between the network and a fabric channel. For a simple 10-gigabit connection from your network to a fabric channel you can connect your network directly to a FortiSwitch-5003A fabric channel front panel interface. This connection provides data communication to the fabric1 or fabric2 interfaces of the FortiGate-5000 boards installed in the chassis.

Figure 19 shows a FortiGate-5050 chassis containing two FortiSwitch-5003A boards and three FortiGate-5001A boards. The chassis is connected to internal and an external networks using FortiSwitch-5003A front panel fabric interfaces:

•The internal network is connected to fabric channel 2 using the F7 front panel interface of the FortiSwitch-5003A board in hub/switch slot 2

•The external network is connected to fabric channel 1 using the F1 front panel interface of the FortiSwitch-5003A board in hub/switch slot 1

In this configuration the FortiSwitch-5003A boards are operating as layer-2 switches and the FortiGate-5001A boards are operating as standalone FortiGate units.

The chassis can also be connected to the network using any of the FortiGate front panel interfaces. You can also install FortiGate AMC modules in the FortiGate-5001A boards and connect networks to the AMC front panel interfaces. The AMC modules and network connections to the AMC modules and FortiGate boards are not shown in Figure 19.

	FortiSwitch-5003A and 5003 Fabric and Base Backplane Communications Guide
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