Table Of Contents - Fortinet 5003A Fabric And Base Backplane Communications Manual

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FortiSwitch-5003A and 5003 Fabric and Base Backplane Communications Guide
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Warnings and cautions................................................................................................... 2
Introduction .............................................................................................. 7
About this document ...................................................................................................... 7
Revision history .............................................................................................................. 8
FortiSwitch-5003A system ...................................................................... 9
Front panel LEDs and connectors............................................................................... 10
LEDs ......................................................................................................................... 11
Base channel interfaces ........................................................................................... 12
Fabric channel interfaces.......................................................................................... 13
Front panel connectors ............................................................................................. 14
FortiSwitch-5003A configurations............................................................................... 14
Base and fabric gigabit switching within a chassis ................................................... 14
Fabric 10-gigabit switching within a chassis ............................................................. 15
Layer-2 link aggregation and redundancy configurations ......................................... 16
FortiSwitch-5003 system ....................................................................... 17
Front panel LEDs and connectors............................................................................... 17
LEDs ......................................................................................................................... 18
About the ZRE network activity LEDs....................................................................... 19
Connectors ............................................................................................................... 20
Base backplane communications ............................................................................... 20
FortiGate-5140 fabric backplane communication ............................... 23
Fabric gigabit switching within a chassis .................................................................. 24
Fabric channel connections between FortiSwitch-5003A boards ............................ 27
Fabric gigabit switching between chassis ................................................................. 27
Fabric gigabit switching to the network ..................................................................... 29
Fabric 10-gigabit switching within a chassis ............................................................. 31
Fabric channel layer-2 link aggregation ..................................................................... 33
Fabric channel layer-2 link aggregation and redundancy......................................... 36
Example active-passive redundant link configuration .............................................. 37
External switch configuration .................................................................................... 38
Example configuration for the FortiSwitch-5003A board in slot 1 ............................. 39
Example configuration for the FortiSwitch-5003A board in slot 2 ............................. 42
Example FortiGate-5001A configuration................................................................... 43
Example active-active redundant link configuration ................................................. 44
Verifying the spanning tree configuration of the FortiSwitch-5003A
board in slot 1 ........................................................................................................... 45
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