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Base backplane gigabit communication

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• Firewall and antivirus only applications.
Traffic will not be off-loaded to the FortiGate-5001FA2 accelerator module. The
result will be high CPU usage because of the high CPU requirement for
antivirus scanning.
The FortiGate-5001FA2 port9 and port10 base backplane gigabit interfaces can
be used for HA heartbeat communication between FortiGate-5001FA2 modules
installed in the same or in different FortiGate-5000 chassis. You can also
configure FortiGate-5001FA2 modules to use the base backplane interfaces for
data communication between FortiGate modules. To support base backplane
communications your FortiGate-5140 or 5050 chassis must include one or more
FortiSwitch-5003 modules. FortiSwitch-5003 modules are installed in chassis slots
1 and 2.
For information about base backplane communication see the
Base Backplane Communication
FortiSwitch-5003 module, see the
FortiGate-5001FA2 security system
Guide. For information about the
FortiSwitch-5003 Guide.
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