Hi. I'm new to this so please bare with me...
So, I have a small lab-setup at home with a FortiGate 70F and a FortiSwitch 108F-POE. The FW is located in the livingroom where my incomming internet is, and the SW is located in my home office. Between the FW and the SW is a small office-SW (located on the 2nd floor) with no support for vLAN. If I connect the fortilink interface on the FW to the fortilink interface on the fortiSW, everything works as expected even over the officeSW. However, the other devices connected to the office-SW then doesn't work since they don't get a vLAN (obviously).
My question is if it's possible to send BOTH the vLAN AND the fortilink traffic, with the vLAN as "primary" (or "untagged") over the same FW-interface so that I can use a single TP-cable.
Is this at all possible?
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Hello @Dadda ,
can you refer this document: https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-How-to-create-a-VLAN-tagged-interface-802-...
Thanks @HarshChavda,
I did some research by my self and hopefully I can now explain a little bit better what I'm trying to achive. What I'm after is that I want to connect my FortiGate to my FortiSwitch with FortiLink with a managed HP Layer 2 switch in between. Like this:
FortiGate --> HP Layer 2 Switch --> FortiSwitch
| ^
---------- Fortilink ----------------
This setup actually works fine when using an unmanaged switch from Netgear. The reason that I want to use a managed Layer 2 switch in between is that I want to take out certain vLANs from the HP-switch for devices connected to that.
I've found some documentation regarding similar setups, thoug these require a layer 3 switch/router or that there's a Fortiswitch on each side of the layer 2 switch.
Is this possible at all?
//Daniel
Hi @Dadda ,
Yes, this is possible.
Here is another forum post with a similar query:
https://community.fortinet.com/t5/Support-Forum/FortiLink-through-3rd-party-L2-switch/m-p/297694
Regards,
Varun
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