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Andrade_Narcis
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FortiSwitch Discovery over IPSEC VPN Tunnel

Can Fortilink over Layer 3 on IPSEC VPN Tunnels be used for Branch Site FortiSwitch Discovery and Configuration

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gfleming
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Yes indeed. However no L3 routing will be handled by FortiGate in this case. It will just be L2/VLAN mgmt. You'll need a local L3 device.

 

https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortiswitch/7.2.4/fortilink-guide/801182/fortilink-mode-over-a-la...

Cheers,
Graham
Andrade_Narcis

Hi Graham, 

The Customer Topology is as follows:

           Branch Site                              WAN                                Head Office

FortiSwitch -> ISP Fortigate -> ISP IPSEC VPN -> ISP Fortigate -> ISFW  Fortigate -> FortiSwitch

 

Branch Site Fortigate creates a VPN Tunnel to HeadOffice; are you saying that I'll need to assign a management ip on the Branch Site Switch and advertise in IPSEC

 

gfleming

Read the doc. You just need the FortiLink interface to be reachable across the L3 network.

Cheers,
Graham
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