Fortinet FortiGate-5000 Network Card User Manual


 
FortiGate-5005FA2 security system Accelerated packet forwarding and policy enforcement
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Connectors
Table 11 lists and describes the FortiGate-5005FA2 connectors.
Accelerated packet forwarding and policy enforcement
FortiGate-5005FA2 Accelerated packet forwarding and policy enforcement results
in accelerated small packet performance required for voice, video, and other
multimedia streaming applications. The following traffic scenarios are
recommended for the accelerated interfaces:
Small packet applications, such as voice over IP (VoIP).
The FortiGate-5005FA2 accelerated interfaces provide wire speed
performance for small packet applications.
Latency sensitive applications, such as multimedia.
The FortiGate-5005FA2 accelerated interfaces add much less latency than
normal (non-accelerated) interfaces.
Session Oriented Traffic with long session lifetime, such as FTP sessions.
Packet size does not affect performance for traffic with long session lifetime.
For long sessions, processing that would otherwise be handled by the
FortiGate-5005FA2 CPUs is off-loaded to the acceleration module.
IPM Blue The FortiGate-5005FA2 is ready to be hot-swapped
(removed from the chassis). If the IPM light is blue and no
other LEDs are lit the FortiGate-5005FA2 board has lost
power
Flashing
Blue
The FortiGate-5005FA2 is changing from hot swap to running
mode or from running mode to hot swap.
Off Normal operation. The FortiGate-5005FA2 board is in contact
with the chassis backplane.
1, 2, 3, 4,
5, 6, 7, 8
Green The correct cable is connected to the gigabit SFP interface.
Flashing Network activity at the gigabit SFP interface.
Table 10: FortiGate-5005FA2 board LEDs (Continued)
LED State Description
Table 11: FortiGate-5005FA2 connectors
Connector Type Speed Protocol Description
1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 6
LC SFP 1000Base-SX Ethernet Six gigabit SFP interfaces that can
accept fiber or copper gigabit
transceivers. These interfaces only
operate at 1000Mbps.
7, 8 LC SFP 1000Base-SX Ethernet Two accelerated gigabit SFP interfaces
that can accept fiber or copper gigabit
transceivers. These interfaces only
operate at 1000Mbps. The accelerated
interface connectors are inverted
compared to connectors 1 to 6.
CONSOLE RJ-45 9600 bps
8/N/1
RS-232
serial
Serial connection to the command line
interface.
USB USB FortiUSB key firmware updates and
configuration backup.