Often times it is advantageous to divide up the internal swtich into individual interfaces. Reasons for doing this include additioanl hardware port for routing, or additional ports to implement one-arm sniffers. The following are some of the commands necessary to accomplish this.

To put a FortiGate in Interface mode: config system global set internal-switch-mode interface To create a software-switch config system switch-interface edit name (example SW1-3) set member internal1 internal2 internal3 (the names may be different depending on firmware and model, you can use the tab key to scroll through valid names). Set vdom root next end To assign an IP address and management access to the software-switch config system interface edit SW1-3 set ip address and mask (example 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0) set allowaccess ping https ssh next end For IT Support and InfoSec services in the Dayton, Ohio area please visit our web site at.

Configuring the Fortinet-FortiGate Switch for Port Mirroring. Tvorcheskij ratchet uchitelya nachaljnih klassov na 1 kategoriyu. For port mirroring on models with built-in hardware switches (for example, the FortiGate-100D, 140D. FortiGate: Software-/ Hardware-/ VLAN-Switch 2016-02-18 Fortinet FortiGate, Fortinet, Interface, Switch, VLAN Johannes Weber I am still a bit confused about the different switch types a FortiGate firewall is able to handle.