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Fortilink from HA Fortigates to individual fortiswitches

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February 1, 2024
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How do we go about using fortilinks from an HA pair of fortigates to 2 standalone fortiswitches? The switches are connected with an lacp trunk between them, but when I tried to use ports in fortilink on the fortigates I lost all connectivity (due to a loop I assume).

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If I understand well you are in this topology (with FortiLink hardware-switch):

https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortiswitch/7.0.8/devices-managed-by-fortios/801187/ha-mode-fortigate-units-using-hardware-switch-interfaces-and-stp

In this case you need on FG to enable STP on each FortiLink hardware-switch interface, as mentioned in the document.

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