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June 6, 2025

Technical Tip: Repurposing Virtual Wire Pair Ports as LAN/WAN Physical Ports

  • June 6, 2025
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Description This article describes how to reconfigure Virtual Wire Pair (VWP) on a FortiGate into standard physical interfaces.
Scope FortiGate.
Solution

Procedure to Remove Virtual Wire Pair Configuration and re-purpose the physical port:

  1. Navigate to Network -> Interface -> Virtual Wire Pair.
  2. Select pair-1, and select 'vw1'.
  3. Select the Ref. (3) link to view associated references.
  4. Delete Policy 1, Policy 2, and the virtual wire 'pair-1'.

 

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Once these items have been deleted, the interfaces vw1 and vw2 will no longer be associated with a Virtual Wire Pair configuration. They will revert to functioning as standard physical interfaces and can be configured accordingly.