FortiGate
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anoushiravan
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Article Id 403561
Description This article describes that different interfaces are members of the FortiLink interface on the FortiGate model 90G with multiple hardware revisions.
Scope FortiGate model 90G with different hardware revisions.
Solution

On FortiGate 90G with hardware revision 1, the members of the FortiLink interface are interface 'a', and interface 'b':

 

FGT-1 # get hardware status
Model name: FortiGate-90G  <-------
ASIC version: SOC5
CPU: ARMv8
Number of CPUs: 8
RAM: 7547 MB
EMMC: 9982 MB(MLC) /dev/mmcblk0
Hard disk: not available
USB Flash: not available
Network Card chipset: FortiASIC NP7LITE Adapter (rev.)
Hardware Board ID: 002
Hardware Revision:Rev1  <------------

 

FGT-1 # show system interface fortilink
config system interface
    edit "fortilink"
        set vdom "root"
        set fortilink enable
        set ip 10.255.1.1 255.255.255.0
        set allowaccess ping fabric
        set type aggregate
        set member "a" "b"    <------------
        set lldp-reception enable
        set lldp-transmission enable
        set snmp-index 16
    next
end

 

On FortiGate 90G with hardware revision 2, the members of the FortiLink interface are interface 'x1', and interface 'x2':

 

FGT-2 # get hardware status
Model name: FortiGate-90G  <-------
ASIC version: SOC5
CPU: ARMv8
Number of CPUs: 8
RAM: 7547 MB
EMMC: 9982 MB(MLC) /dev/mmcblk0
Hard disk: not available
USB Flash: not available
Network Card chipset: FortiASIC NP7LITE Adapter (rev.)
Hardware Board ID: 003
Hardware Revision:Rev2   <------------

 

FGT-2 # show system interface fortilink

config system interface
    edit "fortilink"
        set vdom "root"
        set fortilink enable
        set ip 10.255.1.1 255.255.255.0
        set allowaccess ping fabric
        set type aggregate
        set member "x1" "x2"   <------------
        set lldp-reception enable
        set lldp-transmission enable
        set snmp-index 16
    next
end

 

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Technical Tip: Fortinet Products Hardware Revision