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jase888
jase888
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November 14, 2018
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VLANS without Switch on Fortigate Firewall 60E

  • November 14, 2018
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I have a Fortigate 60E firewall and need to split it into 2 networks, there's currently no budget for a FortiSwitch which I think is needed for VLANs. 

 

However if I set up 2 LANS assigning each a different port and then plug a Gigabit switch into each they work and seem to be separate from one another.

 

So my question is this as secure as a VLAN? Is there any issues with doing it this way? 

 

 

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    emnoc
    emnoc
    New Member
    November 14, 2018

    Short answer, Yes and No. You will be fine the two ports are isolated at layer2/3 and with security policy

    rwpatterson
    rwpatterson
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    November 14, 2018

    +1 if the gigabit switch is capable of splitting the segments as well. If the two Fortigate ports are on the same segment on the switch then all bets are off.

    jase888
    jase888Author
    New Member
    November 14, 2018

    thanks, not so sure what you mean by same segments. I have port 1 going to LAN1, port 2 going to LAN2, etc and then the others unassigned?

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