Hardware Switch and Link Aggregation

[GohanC]

Hello Team,

Is that possible to include a link aggregate interface as a member of hardware switch?

I did this test with the Fortigate VM, but using the software switch instead, and I can insert the aggregate interface into it.

My scenario is this:

We'll need to implement two switches (from other vendor) doing an uplink with Fortigate. This two switches needs to connect to fortigate by PortChannel and we need to share the same vlans with all of it.

So, by the test I have did, I know that by soft-switch it is possible, but my concern is about the CPU usage, so I need to know if is that possible using the hardware switch.

Tks!

[akristof · Accepted solution]

Hello,

No, you can't. I've verified this on 7.0. Only physical interfaces can be members of hw switch.