Table Of Contents - Fortinet FortiGate FortiGate-5000 Backplane Communications Manual

Contents
Contents
FortiGate-5000 Series Version 3.0 MR5 Backplane Communications Guide
01-30005-0423-20070829
Introduction ........................................................................ 5
Warnings and cautions ..................................................................................... 5
About this document......................................................................................... 7
Fortinet documentation..................................................................................... 7
Fortinet Tools and Documentation CD .......................................................... 7
Fortinet Knowledge Center ........................................................................... 7
Comments on Fortinet technical documentation ........................................... 7
Customer service and technical support ........................................................ 7
FortiGate-5140 base backplane communication ............ 9
HA configurations............................................................................................ 10
Two FortiSwitch modules per chassis ......................................................... 11
One FortiSwitch module per chassis........................................................... 15
Network configurations................................................................................... 21
Connecting FortiGate modules to each other ............................................. 22
Connecting FortiGate modules to the network ............................................ 22
FortiGate-5050 base backplane communication .......... 23
HA configurations............................................................................................ 24
Two FortiSwitch modules per chassis ......................................................... 25
One FortiSwitch module per chassis........................................................... 29
Network configurations................................................................................... 35
Connecting FortiGate modules to each other ............................................. 36
Connecting FortiGate modules to the network ............................................ 36
FortiGate-5020 base backplane communication .......... 37
HA configurations............................................................................................ 37
Heartbeat failover between channels .......................................................... 38
Inter-chassis HA configurations .................................................................... 41
Network configurations................................................................................... 43
Index.................................................................................. 45
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