Fortinet 5003 - Manual (Page 24)

FortiSwitch-5003A and 5003 Fabric and Base Backplane Communications Guide
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Fabric gigabit switching within a chassis FortiGate-5140 fabric backplane communication
This section describes:
• Fabric gigabit switching within a chassis
• Fabric channel connections between FortiSwitch-5003A boards
• Fabric gigabit switching between chassis
• Fabric gigabit switching to the network
• Fabric 10-gigabit switching within a chassis
• Fabric channel layer-2 link aggregation
• Fabric channel layer-2 link aggregation and redundancy
• Example active-passive redundant link configuration
• Example active-active redundant link configuration
Fabric gigabit switching within a chassis
You can use FortiSwitch-5003A fabric channel switching for communication
between the fabric backplane interfaces of FortiGate-5001A or 5005FA2 boards
installed in a FortiGate-5140 chassis.
Figure 9 shows a FortiGate-5140 chassis with a FortiSwitch-5003A board in
hub/switch slot 1, and FortiGate-5001A boards in 6 other slots. In this
configuration the FortiSwitch-5003A board provides 1-gigabit fabric backplane
switching for the FortiGate-5001A fabric1 interfaces. The FortiSwitch-5003A
boards operate as layer-2 switches and the FortiGate-5001A boards operate as
typical standalone FortiGate units.
Figure 9: FortiGate-5140 fabric channel 1 data communication
FA N T R AY FA N T R AY FA N T R AY
13 11 9 7 5 3 1 2 4 6 8 10 12 14
5140
CRITI CAL RESET MAJOR MINOR USER1 USER2 USER3
5140SAP SERIAL 1 SERIAL 2 ALARM
FILTER
1 2
0 1 2
10/100 link/Act
ETH0 Service
RESET
STATUS
Hot Swap
link/Act ETH0 ETH1 10/100
5000SM
10/100 link/Act
ETH0 Service
RESET
STATUS
Hot Swap
link/Act ETH0 ETH1 10/100
5000SM
Fabric channel 1
data communication