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Charlez79
Charlez79
Visitor III
April 28, 2021
Question

Hardware Switch & Vlan setup

  • April 28, 2021
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Hi, 

I was wondering if you create a hardware switch with 5 ports. Is there a way to only add a vlan to certain ports of that hardware switch or will the vlan always be assigned to all ports?

1 only need multiple vlan's on 1 port, the other ports should only have the native untagged vlan.

 

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Charlez

 

 

    2 replies

    Toshi_Esumi
    SuperUser
    Toshi_Esumi
    SuperUser
    April 28, 2021

    No. Not possible. Once you bundled multiple ports into a hard-switch, your are no longer be able to refer to individual physical port to create a VLAN. A VLAN can be bound to the hard-switch. In your case, I would leave those 5 ports separated, then create VLANs on the port you need to have them.

    Charlez79
    Charlez79Author
    Visitor III
    April 28, 2021
    Ok, i was hoping not to have to use an extra uplink and save a port.
    Toshi_Esumi
    SuperUser
    Toshi_Esumi
    SuperUser
    April 28, 2021

    I'm not sure what's your intended design. But using a hard-switch or without it wouldn't change the number of ports you need with one uplink(or downlink) device + 4 non-tagged devices.

    DanielLeblanc
    DanielLeblanc
    New Member
    November 27, 2023

    I know it's an old but I did something similar this WE see thread here.

    https://community.fortinet.com/t5/Support-Forum/FortiAP-connected-to-2-VDOMs-with-2-SSID/m-p/285417#M225244

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