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FortiSwitch-5003A and 5003 Fabric and Base Backplane Communications Guide
01-30000-85717-20081205 3
Contents
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