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Badger_89
Explorer II
May 22, 2024
Question

Hardware switch - dot1x

  • May 22, 2024
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Hi

 

To do dot1x on a client directly connected to the firewall, the model needs a hardware switch.

 

I believe you can only have one broadcast domain/vlan on the hardware switch

 

So, by default does this mean there is no way to have clients sitting in different vlans, or is there a workaround/solution to this. 

 

Thanks

4 replies

pminarik
Staff
Staff
May 22, 2024

That assumption is incorrect.

You can make multiple virtual switches out of the default hardware-switch. On top of these virtual switches, you can configure VLANs and enable dynamic VLAN-assigmnent based on dot1x authentication.

Badger_89
Badger_89Author
Explorer II
May 22, 2024

thanks :)

pminarik
Staff
Staff
May 22, 2024

Quick addition: The documentation for this feature doesn't seem to be maintained anymore in recent documents versions, so here's a link to the old documentation in case you struggle with finding it:

 

https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate/6.0.0/handbook/42807/virtual-switch

 

 

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