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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