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bbartik
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December 16, 2025
Question

SSH to managed FortiSwitches from external network

  • December 16, 2025
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I have disabled split interface in order to setup MLAG on two fortiswitches. I am using the default subnet 10.255.1.0/24 which I have made routable external via WAN1 (lab network so its actually all RRFC1918 space). I cannot seem to create a policy to allow inbound access to fortilink interface so I can SSH to the switches (only_default.fortilink).

How do I configure this so I can ssh from an external (non-fortilink) network?

Thanks,

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AEK
SuperUser
SuperUser
December 16, 2025

Try create the policy via CLI, you should be able to select FortiLink as destination interface.

AEK