Technical Tip: FortiSwitch and Amazon AWS DX Endpoint BGP Configuration Example

DuyNguy · ‎09-29-2024

Description

This article describes how to configure BGP routing between a standalone FortiSwitch and Amanzon AWS DX endpoint.

Scope

FortiSwitch and Amazon AWS BGP routing.

Solution

FortiSwitch and Amazon BGP configuration requirement as follow:

Configure router BGP on switch port uplink to Amazon AWS Circuit (information provided by Amazon).
The switch port needs to be configured as trunk and allow the Vlan (provided by Amazon).
FortiSwitch physical port port24 configuration:

edit "port24"

set description "Uplink to Amazon AWS-DC Circuit"

set speed 10000full

edit "port24"

set native 1

set allowed-vlans 364

set native 1

set allowed-vlans 35,364

set stp-state disabled

config router bgp

set as 12345

set router-id 5.6.7.8

config neighbor

edit "169.254.10.33"

set remote-as 54321

set password “provided-by-Amazon-team"

config network

edit 1

set prefix 169.254.10.32 255.255.255.248

config router static

edit 1

set dst 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0

set gateway 169.254.10.33

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