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Smartypants
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August 21, 2018
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Fortigate LAN ports and Fortiswitch VLANs

  • August 21, 2018
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I must be missing something.

I just got a nice FG101E and a Fortiswitch 424D FPOE.

I ended up with the 101E because the smaller 81E was out of stock so now I have this fun Fortiswitch with 24-ports and a nice Fortigate with 15-ports after the Fortilink connection.

 

Question:

I've got the Fortiswitch configured with VLANs but I've got 15-ports on my FGT101E that I'd like to use.

Should I not be able to select port-1 through Port-15 and assign them as a switch and use them with the 24-ports on the Fortiswitch 424D so that I have like 39-ports?

 

Thanks

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    M_M_SW
    New Member
    January 12, 2019

    I think you can't do that

    cause under fortilink it's different vlan to your FG101E switch port

    so only cut to two different vlan

    or you can set all FG101E port1-16 as a switch dedicated to Fortiswitch

    than you do can connect 16 FSW424D like 384-ports

    (still can do many vlans)

     

    brycemd
    New Member
    January 18, 2019

    You would have to create a software switch with the members being the fortiswitch VLAN and then the fortigate physical ports.

     

    It has some limitations, but that is the only way I have seen it work.

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