HA Active-Active Deployment – Clarification on WAN Connectivity Requirements

[FortiNoob3]

Hello,

I want to implement a FortiGate 600F HA Active-Active cluster, with the ISP’s equipment in bridge mode, providing a WAN IP via DHCP. Can you tell me if a router is needed between the cluster and the ISP’s equipment?

[sw2090]

that depends on your ISP. However you must connect every cluster node to that wan. 

That alone might require a switch or router in between to have enough ports.

In or case (that's active-passive cluster here anyways) the ISP router/box only gives us one port so we needed the router and a switch to be able to connect all nodes.