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healthy-cucumber
New Member
September 11, 2024
Question

intervlan communication

  • September 11, 2024
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Hi folks, 

I have a setup at home with a FG40F firewall and a 124F fortiswitch.

I have 3 vlans in my network, and my switch is connected to my FG with fortilink. 

Since the new subnets (and vlans ofc) my connectio to the SMB server dropped down to 500Mbit/s. 

Is there any option to skip the traffic to FG while i want to reach another subnets devices? 

eg.: 

I have an SMB server in vlan 10

And my workstations in vlan 20

 

I have no clue how could i achive this, i used mikrotik devices before fortinet. 

7 replies

Cealdyn
New Member
September 11, 2024

FG-40F has 5Gbps FW throughput so that should not be a problem. What kind of of policies / theat protection are you running between those networks?

healthy-cucumber
New Member
September 11, 2024

There is no threat protection turned on the policies and i have only 2 configured on these vlans, 

 

Vlan 10 traffic to vlan 20, all protocol enable and vice versa. No NAT, no logging.

 

 

Cealdyn
New Member
September 11, 2024

And this problem doesn't occur if you move this workstation in same subnet/VLAN as SMB server? Just to make sure it's not something to do with workstation or server itself, even if it has been working before when you had Mikrotik devices.

nathan_h
Staff & Editor
Staff & Editor
September 11, 2024
healthy-cucumber
New Member
September 12, 2024

Daisy chained FW switches, connected via fortilink and managed by the Fortigate.

               FG

                 |

              SW

            /          \

Workstation     SW

                             \ 

                           SMB server

nathan_h
Staff & Editor
Staff & Editor
September 12, 2024

While doing file transfer, check the switchport utilization by the command below. Check the switchport connected to Workstation, Fortigate, Switch to Switch and Switch to SMB Server.

diagnose switch physical-ports linerate <switch port#>

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