Fortinet FortiGate-5000 Backplane Communications Manual

29 August 2007 01-30005-0423-20070829 © Copyright 2007 Fortinet, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication including text, examples, diagrams or illustrations may be reproduced, transmitted, or translated in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, manual, optical or otherwise, for an ...

01-30005-0423-20070829 3 Contents Introduction........................................................................ 5 Warnings and cautions ..................................................................................... 5 About this document............................... ...

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FortiGate-5000 Series Version 3.0 MR5 Backplane Communications Guide 01-30005-0423-20070829 5 Introduction This FortiGate-5000 Series Backplane Communications Guide contains information, instructions and example configurations involving the base backplane network interfaces of FortiGate-5000 series systems. FortiGate-5140, ...

6 01-30005-0423-20070829 Warnings and cautions Introduction • Turning off all power switches may not turn off all power to the FortiGate equipment. Except where noted, disconnect the FortiGate equipment from all power sources, telecommunications links and networks before installing, or re ...

FortiGate-5000 Series Version 3.0 MR5 Backplane Communications Guide 01-30005-0423-20070829 7 About this document This document includes the following chapters: • FortiGate-5140 base backplane communication describes supported configurations and features for FortiGate-5140 chassis backplane communications. • FortiGate-505 ...

8 01-30005-0423-20070829 Customer service and technical support Introduction ...

FortiGate-5000 Series Version 3.0 MR5 Backplane Communications Guide 01-30005-0423-20070829 9 FortiGate-5140 base backplane communication Both the FortiGate-5140 and the FortiGate-5050 chassis have two base backplane Ethernet channels. Available connections to these channels vary by slot number. • Slot 1 can conn ...

10 01-30005-0423-20070829 HA configurations FortiGate-5140 base backplane communication This section contains example HA and network configurations for each hardware combination. It also discusses how to choose an appropriate amount and slot number of FortiSwitch modules for base backplane ...