FCNSA, FCNSP
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FortiGate 200A/B, 224B, 110C, 100A/D, 80C/CM/Voice, 60B/C/CX/D, 50B, 40C, 30B
FortiAnalyzer 100B, 100C
FortiMail 100,100C
FortiManager VM
FortiAuthenticator VM
FortiToken
FortiAP 220B/221B, 11C
Ideally, I' d like to combine interfaces 13 and 14 on each Fortigate and create subinterfaces for each of the VLANs, so I can physically connect each interface to a different physical switch.If I can chime in here, you can' t do that unless you have; A cisco VSS/VPc solution A pair of cisco stack or other vendor stack switches or some other devices that support multichassis-ether-channel ( MEC )
PCNSE
NSE
StrongSwan
Interfaces 13-16 support link aggregation or redundant interfaces.
If I can chime in here, you can' t do that unless you have; A cisco VSS/VPc solution A pair of cisco stack or other vendor stack switches or some other devices that support multichassis-ether-channel ( MEC )Thank you both for the replies. We will be using a pair of stacked Cisco 3750x switches. If I' m understanding you correctly, I' ll need to create a etherchannel port group for the two ports that will connect to the Fortigate? Is there any additional configuration I' ll need on the switches (besides VLAN configuration, port assignment, etc)? I' m not familiar with Cisco VSS/VPC...is that required in addition to the switch stack? Thank you again for the help.
FCNSA, FCNSP
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FortiGate 200A/B, 224B, 110C, 100A/D, 80C/CM/Voice, 60B/C/CX/D, 50B, 40C, 30B
FortiAnalyzer 100B, 100C
FortiMail 100,100C
FortiManager VM
FortiAuthenticator VM
FortiToken
FortiAP 220B/221B, 11C
PCNSE
NSE
StrongSwan
No if you want redundancey, just pick 2 like-as ports one on each stack member and added then to the FGT. This is common on the 3750E/G/X models of the cisco stacking models.Thanks, that makes sense...I' m also assuming that the switch ports will need to be configured as 802.11Q trunks, in order to pass VLAN IDs to the fortigate, correct?
PCNSE
NSE
StrongSwan
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