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rajamanickam
rajamanickam
Explorer II
March 2, 2022
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Fortigate - Hardware switch

  • March 2, 2022
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Hi, What are the models of Fortigate has internal hardware switch which can be used as one switching layer.. I am not seeing this in the device spec. 

Best answer by Vando_Pereira

Depending on the model, as you mentioned above the 40F, 60F and 80F, they all have the Integrated Fabric Switch. On the high end models, depends on the model.

 

Best Regards,

Vando Pereira

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Vando_Pereira
Staff
Vando_Pereira
Staff
March 2, 2022

Hello,

 

Do you mean, software switch ? where you can create a L2 domain between the fortigate ports ?

 

Best Regards

rajamanickam
rajamanickamAuthor
Explorer II
March 2, 2022

Hi , As you said There are two options to create L2 domain between the Fortigate ports .. Hardware switch and software switch. I understand hardware switch has internal switch fabric and software switch is a virtual form built on software..

I would like to know what are the models support Hardware switch?. (I understand 600E model doesn’t have option to create hardware switch)

 

Regards

Raja

 

Vando_Pereira
Staff
Vando_Pereira
Staff
March 2, 2022

You are correct, the 600E (and also 500E) model does not have a HW Switch capability.

But these models all have the HW Switch:

100/101F
200/201F
300/301E
400/401E
800D
1100/1101E
1200D
1500D

 

If you need to know about a specific model, just ask and I will check it out for you.

 

Best Regards,

Vando Pereira

Toshi_Esumi
SuperUser
Toshi_Esumi
SuperUser
March 2, 2022

All those smaller 2-digit number models have hard-switch built-in, and all internal ports are configured as members of the hard-switch by default. You can break each of those ports from the hard-switch and use it independently whatever you want, like WAN or DMZ or whatever.

 

Toshi

rajamanickam
rajamanickamAuthor
Explorer II
March 3, 2022

Thank you for the reply. I was earlier informed by Fortinet that only smaller boxes from 40f to 100f has internal hardware switch and rest of the higher end has only software switch which can be used for bridging ports. Is it so?

 

Regards

Raja

Vando_Pereira
Staff
Vando_PereiraAnswer
Staff
March 3, 2022

Depending on the model, as you mentioned above the 40F, 60F and 80F, they all have the Integrated Fabric Switch. On the high end models, depends on the model.

 

Best Regards,

Vando Pereira

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