Mikrotik and FortiGate

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
December 22, 2023
3 replies
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Hi,

Please help me create this network.

WAN: 31.171.80.12

Mikrotik: 172.16.10.2

Vlan 100 - 10.10.10.1/24

Vlan 200 - 10.11.10.1/24

Fortigate FG100E: 172.16.10.3

HPE 5130: 172.16.10.4

FortiGate

funkylicious

SuperUser

Take a look at this: https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-Hardware-switch-Software-switch-VLAN-switch-Use/ta-p/210153

It will help you bridge the VLANs between the switches if they are not directly connected.

"jack of all trades, master of none"

ebilcari

Staff

If the Mikrotik device has router capabilities I would strongly suggest to use routing between this devices. Spanning VLANs over devices that offer L3 support will not scale well and since OP is still in design phase I would suggest to avoid that.

Emirjon

hbac

Staff

Hi @hadjieff,

You can put lan2 and lan3 in the same hardware switch and create VLAN100 and VLAN200 sub-interfaces under that hardware switch.

Hardware switch: https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate/7.4.1/administration-guide/100999/hardware-switch

VLAN: https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate/7.4.1/administration-guide/402940/vlan#To5

Regards,

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