correct way to cable a stack of fortiswitches

[nflnetwork29]

I'm new to fortiswitch stacking and just looking fort some clarity around the redundancy of the cabling . 

If we have a pair of 448E switch in our Distribution layer (configuration of MCLAG) and I then want to connect 4 access layer switches (148F Series) - How would I stack these / Cable them?

would this be correct?

Do the 4 access layer switch need to daisy chained + switch 1 and 4 connect to disti layer?

[ebilcari]

If this are standalone switches (not managed by a FGT) I don't  think that they can be stacked. Also the MCLAG is not supported for 1xx series. I guess you could configure LAG for the uplinks in the 1st and 4th switch and leave the interswitch links to be managed by STP.

[nflnetwork29]

i plan to use fortilink to manage everything. . the distribution layer switches we are using are the 4xx series . 

[ebilcari]

In FortilLink there are many advantages, practically every possible topology is covered in the guide here. Most of the interlink between the switches (ISL) will be discovered automatically.

[Toshi_Esumi]

"Stacking" is not supported by FortiSwitches. MCLAG doesn't work to set up mulitple switches to act  virtually as one switch. It's a different type of "redundancy" operation of switches. We had the same conversation recently.

https://community.fortinet.com/t5/Support-Forum/how-to-stack-fortiswitch/td-p/275150

Toshi

[nflnetwork29]

we are using MCLAG at the distribution layer only. how do we connect the 4 access layer switches?

[Toshi_Esumi]

If no stacking, individual connections from both MCLAG switches to each access switch should work as you described in the diagram.

Toshi

[bents1]

Yes they were are communicate with each other. Did run into a weird spanning treee like issue that i had to reboot one of the switches but wasnt that bad. probably coukd have lwt it sit longer but i was impatient. but that was about the biggest issue.

[doncacciatoconsuting]

Back to the original drawing....Based on some of the designs I did.... The uplinks on the access switches look good, but I always cabled the first switch in the access layer to the last switch in the group per the design docs. Any thoughts ?

[Timmay]

Did you figure this out? Currently configuring the same setup.