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Description

This article describes while integrating an interface to a target interface, the option for the target interface is not visible.

Scope

FortiGate.

Solution

For example, there can be a scenario where the user is not able to see FortiLink as an option while integrating an interface as shown below:

The user is trying to integrate the internal1 interface to FortiLink but FortiLink is not coming up in the target interface list:

The reason behind this is that FortiLink is configured as a Hardware switch. To integrate an interface to FortiLink , change the type of FortiLink interface to an aggregate interface.

To do that, refer to this article: Technical Tip: How to convert a Hardware Switch or Software Switch into an Aggregate without reconfi...

Once this is done, the option to integrate into FortiLink should be visible:

Policies and Vlans associated with the internal1 interface moved to FortiLink interface:

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Technical Tip: Unable to select the target interface while using the Integrate Interface feature

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