Example active-active redundant link configuration – Fortinet 5003 User Manual

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FortiSwitch-5003A and 5003 Fabric and Base Backplane Communications Guide

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Example active-active redundant link configuration

FortiGate-5050 fabric backplane communication

Example active-active redundant link configuration

You can make the previous example an active-active redundant link configuration
that sends all traffic from the internal network to one FortiSwitch-5003A board and
all traffic from the external network to the other FortiSwitch-5003A board by
changing the priorities of the spanning tree instances added to the
FortiSwitch-5003A boards.

To send all traffic from the internal network to the FortiSwitch-5003A board in
slot 1 configure the spanning tree instances on this board with a lower priority
value for instance 3 which is used for VLAN 100 packets.

config switch fabric-channel stp instance

edit 3

set priority 4096
set vlan-range 100

next
edit 5

set priority 40960
set vlan-range 101

end

To send all traffic from the external network to the FortiSwitch-5003A board in slot
2 configure the spanning tree instances on this board with a lower priority value for
instance 5 which is used for VLAN 101 packets.

config switch fabric-channel stp instance

edit 3

set priority 40960
set vlan-range 100

next
edit 5

set priority 4096
set vlan-range 101

end

Verifying the spanning tree configuration of a FortiSwitch-5003A board in slot 1

To display the configuration of spanning tree instance 3 for the FortiSwitch-5003A
F5 interface enter:

diagnose spanning-tree instance fabric-channel 3 f5

MST Instance Information, Fabric-Channel:

Instance ID : 3
Mapped VLANs : 100
Switch Priority : 4096
Regional Root MAC Address : 00306407a1da
Regional Root Priority:

4096

Regional Root Path Cost:

0

Regional Root Port:

slot-2/1

Remaining Hops:

20

Port Speed

Cost

Priority

Role State

__________ ______ ________ _________ __________ __________

f5 10G

2000

128

DESIGNATED

FORWARDING

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