Monday, April 9, 2018

Creating FortiNet FortiGate HA configuration - question on networking

Diagram for reference - https://imgur.com/6eMsPCn

I am in the process of introducing an additional FortiNet FortiGate 200E firewall to create an Active-Passive configuration. There is currently a single 200E that has a fiber handoff for internet.

To facilitate the additional firewall, I am putting a Cisco Catalyst switch in front of the firewalls as depicted in the diagram. I am clear on how to make the FortiGates talk to each other, but need a sanity check on the networking going into the FortiGates.

I would move the fiber handoff to a port on the Catalyst switch (TenGigabitEthernet1/1/2) and connect port GigabitEthernet1/0/47 to port 14 the primary firewall (A) and port GigabitEthernet1/0/48 to port 14 on the secondary firewall (B).

This is what I was thinking.

Related Cisco Config:

interface Vlan100

description Internet

ip address 10.0.100.128 255.255.255.248 (using private IP just for demo purposes)

interface TenGigabitEthernet1/1/2

description Internet

switchport access vlan 100

switchport mode access

interface GigabitEthernet1/0/47

switchport access vlan 100

switchport mode access

interface GigabitEthernet1/0/48

switchport access vlan 100

switchport mode access

Related FortiGate Config:

Set up port 14 on both firewalls with VLAN 100

Is this correct? If not, what would I need to do differently?



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