Front panel components
FortiSwitch-5003B system
FortiSwitch-5003B System Guide
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The FortiGate-5060 fabric backplane is a triply-replicated 6-slot mesh resulting in
connections after the slot-6 interface being mapped to slot-7 and up as shown in
Table 8
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If a FortiGate-5060 chassis contains two FortiSwitch-5003B boards, connections
between them can occur using slot-7, slot-12, and may occur using slot-1/2 if this
interface is activated. These connections between the FortiSwitch-5003B boards in the
same chassis have the potential to cause looping. However, by default the
FortiSwitch-5003B board has MSTP enabled on all interfaces which prevents looping.
In some configurations you may need to disable MSTP. Before disabling MSTP you
should disable the slot-7, slot-12 and slot-1/2 interfaces.
slot-4
Connection to chassis slot 4.
slot-5
Connection to chassis slot 5.
slot-6
Not connected.
slot-7
Not connected.
slot-8
Not connected.
slot-9
Not connected.
slot-10
Not connected.
slot-11
Not connected.
slot-12
Not connected.
slot-13
Not connected.
slot-14
Not connected.
Table 8: FortiSwitch-5003B backplane mapping with a FortiGate-5060 chassis
FortiSwitch-5003B
Fabric Port Name
Actual connection in a FortiGate-5060 chassis
slot-1/2
Connection between chassis slot 1 and slot 2.
slot-3
Connection to chassis slot 3.
slot-4
Connection to chassis slot 4.
slot-5
Connection to chassis slot 5.
slot-6
Connection to chassis slot 6.
slot-7
Secondary connection between chassis slot 1 and slot 2.
slot-8
Secondary connection to chassis slot 3.*
slot-9
Secondary connection to chassis slot 4.*
slot-10
Secondary connection to chassis slot 5.*
slot-11
Secondary connection to chassis slot 6.*
slot-12
Tertiary connection between chassis slot 1 and slot 2.*
slot-13
Tertiary connection to chassis slot 3.*
slot-14
Tertiary connection to chassis slot 4.*
*Current FortiSwitch-5003B series boards do not support the secondary and tertiary
connections.
Table 7: FortiSwitch-5003B backplane mapping with an example 5-slot chassis
FortiSwitch-5003B Fabric Port
Name
Actual connection in 5-slot ATCA chassis
