Does the VLAN switch work in software or hardware?
I do not seem to have the hardware switch option when attempting to create interfaces.
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See below. It's using SoC4 like 40F, 60F, 70F. So the hardware-switch works in the same way.
https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate/7.6.0/hardware-acceleration/300792/fortigate-80f-81f-an...
Depending on the FortiOS version you're running on the 80F, it might have VLAN switch mode enabled by default. In that case, you wouldn't see hard-switch in GUI, but you would see VLAN switch instead. However, VLAN switch is same as hard-switch unless you user a "trunk" port, which is a special port to accumulate all VLAN switch interfaces' native VLANs. So you can consider VLAN switch = hard-switch.
By the way, in CLI, it's under "config system virtual-switch" regardless VLAN switch is enabled or not.
Toshi
See below. It's using SoC4 like 40F, 60F, 70F. So the hardware-switch works in the same way.
https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate/7.6.0/hardware-acceleration/300792/fortigate-80f-81f-an...
Depending on the FortiOS version you're running on the 80F, it might have VLAN switch mode enabled by default. In that case, you wouldn't see hard-switch in GUI, but you would see VLAN switch instead. However, VLAN switch is same as hard-switch unless you user a "trunk" port, which is a special port to accumulate all VLAN switch interfaces' native VLANs. So you can consider VLAN switch = hard-switch.
By the way, in CLI, it's under "config system virtual-switch" regardless VLAN switch is enabled or not.
Toshi
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