Fortinet 5003 - Manual (Page 4)

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