Forti Switch Ring Topology

[minah]

Hello All

Please be informed that we had a customer, and he purchases FortiGate firewall 81F and 3 Forti Switches 124F 

He was asking to connect all Forti switches directly to FortiGate with Forti Link mode to make sure that he avoids the single point of failure and if any switch become down that doesn't affect to both switches 

Please advise if there is any recommendation will be appreciated

[gojekno2]

You essentially would have a chain with traffic from switch 8 having to traverse all the way to switch1 to get to the fortigate. If a link in the chain is broken, everything without a path to the Fortigate on the active link will loose this funtionality.

[minah]

as I read from Fortinet, they give us un recommended solution which is set Forti switches ports as a Hardware switch then apply them on Forti Link mode 

Are there any alternative solutions than this mentioned Please advice

[sachitdas_FTNT]

Please refer this: https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortiswitch/7.6.1/fortilink-guide/617516/determining-the-network-...