Fortinet 5003A Fabric And Base Backplane Communications Manual page 85

FortiGate-5020 base backplane communication
FortiSwitch-5003A and 5003 Fabric and Base Backplane Communications Guide
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Figure 36: FortiGate-5020 inter-chassis network and heartbeat connections
internal network
USB 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
CONSOLE
PWR ACC STA IPM
USB 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
CONSOLE
PWR ACC STA IPM
Internet
Figure 37: FortiGate-5001SX/FortiGate-5001FA2 inter-chassis heartbeat interface
configuration
By default, FortiGate-5001SX modules use port9 and port10 (the base backplane
interfaces) as heartbeat interfaces. Because base backplane interfaces cannot be
used in inter-chassis configurations, if you want to form an inter-chassis HA
cluster, these default heartbeat interfaces should be disabled. In the above
example, the front panel interfaces port7 and port8 are enabled as heartbeat
interfaces, and port9 and port10 are disabled.
Internal Network
switch
switch
PSU A
PSU B
USB 1
CONSOLE
PWR ACC
USB 1
CONSOLE
PWR ACC
switch
switch
Internet
Inter-chassis HA configurations
inter-chassis heartbeat
PSU A
PSU B
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
STA IPM
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
STA IPM
inter-chassis heartbeat
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