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August 19, 2025

Technical Tip: FortiGate link is not coming up after upgrading FortiGate

  • August 19, 2025
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Description

This article describes that the FortiGate link is not coming up after upgrading to v7.4.5.

Scope FortiGate-1100E, 2200E, 3300E, 3400E, and 3600E.
Solution

State of peer ports of FortiGate ports (negotiated speed, 1G) is down after the upgrade.

 

Peer switch port showing the port not connected:

 

NotCcnnected.JPG

 

This issue has been officially resolved in v7.4.8 and v7.6.3: FortiOS 7.6.3 Release Note (Bug 1094404) 

 

Workaround:
Modify the peer switch configuration by setting the affected 1G ports from 1000auto to 1000full duplex mode.