FortiSwitch-5003A and 5003 Fabric and Base Backplane Communications Guide
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Fabric gigabit switching to the network
FortiGate-5140 fabric backplane communication
Figure 12: Fabric channel 2 connected to an internal network and fabric channel 1
connected to an external network
For the FortiGate-5001A boards to use the fabric channels 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 tags 201 to 210 on slots 6, 8, and 10 and the F1 front
panel interface, from the FortiSwitch-5003A CLI enter:
config switch fabric-channel interface
edit "slot-6"
set allowed-vlans 1,201-210
next
edit "slot-8"
set allowed-vlans 1,201-210
next
edit "slot-10"
set allowed-vlans 1,201-210
next
edit "f1"
set allowed-vlans 1,201-210
end
Internal Network
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Fabric channel 1
data communication
Fabric channel 2
data communication
External network connected
to the F1 front panel fabric
interface to connect to
fabric channel 1
Internal network connected
to the F7 front panel fabric
interface to connect to
fabric channel 2
External
Network
