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July 20, 2022
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I normally use Cisco switches in my branch office deployment with Fortigate 60Fs. Have now got a few FS-148F and strugling to set this up how I want.

I normally have a trunk on Cisco switch to Firewall and then set my Vlan Gateways on the firewall.

Have managed to get the Fortiswitch connected and authorised via the fortilink port. Then created a Vlan under fortilink port. When you create a vlan under the fortilink port, is that then created on the switch or the firewall. This is somehow confusing me!

Just basically looking to have a trunk port between the 2 and create vlans that i can firewall.

Any pointers would be great.

Cheers

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Hello blake09,

Thank you for using the Community Forum.

I will seek to get you an answer or help. We will reply to this thread with an update as soon as possible.

Regards,

Staff

Hello blake09,

I m coming back to first, ask you under which versions your FortiSwitches are running?

Regards,

Staff

Dear @blake09

Hope you are doing well.

Normally for a managed fortiswitch, when any vlan is created under "Fortiswitch vlan" section, it will get pushed to the switch.

In managed Fortiswitch scenario , the switches act as layer-2 , while the gateway ( IP address) will reside on the Fortigate.

Once a vlan is created, it can be mapped to ports in "Fortiswitch ports" inside "Wifi Switch and controller" section in Fortigate.

Please refer the below article for creating vlans :

https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortiswitch/6.4.2/devices-managed-by-fortios/985221/fortiswitch-features-configuration#VLAN

Regards

Vigneash