how to stack fortiswitch?

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do the fortiswitch's support stacking ? i am speaking of traditional stacking where all switch are managed via single ip address and I can configure ports from any stack member thru a single mgmt ip .

what about stacking bandwidth? do we have any dedicated stacking ports or is everything done thru the ports on the front of the switch?

example if i have a 3 x 24 port 1G copper switch with no uplink ports how would i stack these 3 switches?

Is daisy chain my only option?

FortiSwitch

anignan

Staff

Hi @nflnetwork29

Yes FortiSwitch support stacking and it is called MCLAG group and each FortiSwitch is an MCLAG peer but this depends on your FortiSwitch model. Not all FortiSwitches support this feature..

Abdel

Toshi_Esumi

SuperUser

The general "stacking" (Juniper's Virtual Chassis) and "MCLAG/MC-LAG/MLAG" are two different things. Some providers like Cisco, Juniper, and others might support both depending on models. Below is one of some explanations for the differences you can find online. FSW supports only MCLAG, not stacking.

https://www.qsfptek.com/qt-news/switch-stacking-vs-mlag.html

Toshi

anignan

Staff

Hi @Toshi_Esumi

Vendors have different name in Fortinet a FSW stack is just a group of FSW managed by the same FortiLink interface..I think here @nflnetwork29 refer to something like cisco stackwise technology

Thanks