I have recently purchased two Fortinet switches, an FS-124E and an
FS-148E, and deployed them in my network at separate locations. I am
seeing a large percentage of packet drops (about 30%), specifically
inbound discards. These errors are usually ind...
I have a new FS-124E running Firmware 6.2.1 and am trying to communicate
with a Cisco 3750X running IOS 12.2(55)SE3 via SFP ports. I have
configured the FortiSwitch as a stand alone. Connecting from RJ45 to
RJ45 between the switches, the communicatio...
For the sake of being complete and for any lurkers or future Fortinet
customers, the Fortinet engineer assigned to my case blamed the problem
on an unsupported GBIC. He referred me to the list of compatible GBICS
published by Fortinet and recommended...
Joel: I had the same experience. I had a link-light on the SFP port of
the FortiSwitch, but not on the Cisco. I resolved this by adding the
speed nonegotiation command to the Cisco port config and then changing
the Fortinet port config from auto-nego...
SOLUTIONIt appears that in 6.2 there is a problem with the trunking over
SFP. I solved the problem by leaving my SFP port out of the trunk setup
and adding all VLANs to the Allowed VLANs for that particular port.
Joel: I found a solution to my problem which was connecting a standalone
FW-124E to a Cisco 3750X via fiber. It appears in 6.2 there is an issue
with the trunking. I removed the trunk setup on the FortiSwitch port in
which I installed the GBIC, and j...
