Fortinet 5003A Fabric And Base Backplane Communications Manual page 26

Fabric gigabit switching within a chassis
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Figure 10: FortiGate-5140 fabric channel 1 and 2 data communication
Fabric channel 2
data communication
13 11 9 7 5 3
FILTER
0 FA N TR AY 1 FA N TR AY
Fabric channel 1
data communication
For the FortiGate boards to use the fabric channels 1 and 2 for data
communication you must show backplane interfaces on the FortiGate web-based
manager and then configure firewall polices and routing for the fabric1 and fabric2
interfaces.
If the data traffic contains VLAN-tagged packets, you must add the VLAN tags to
the FortiSwitch-5003A interfaces that will handle the VLAN-tagged traffic. For
example, to allow VLAN tag 400 on slots 4 and 12 from the FortiSwitch-5003A CLI
enter:
config switch fabric-channel interface
edit "slot-4"
set allowed-vlans 1,400
next
edit "slot-12"
set allowed-vlans 1,400
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FortiSwitch-5003A and 5003 Fabric and Base Backplane Communications Guide
FortiGate-5140 fabric backplane communication
5140SAP
SERIAL 1 SERIAL 2 ALARM
5140
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FABRIC FABRIC FABRIC FABRIC FABRIC FABRIC
BASE BASE BASE BASE BASE BASE
2 FA N TR AY
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ETH0
Service
RESET
STATUS
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1 2
ETH0 ETH1
ETH0
Service
RESET
STATUS
Hot Swap
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