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yagyu

Aspirant

Feb 23, 2021

GS716Tv3 Ha SETUP

Hi! I want to set up HA with fortigate firewalls like: switch - fw - switch internet ---> | | | --> LAN sw...

JohnC_V

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Feb 24, 2021

yagyu,

Welcome to our community! :)

May I know what do you want to achieve here? The firewall should be the one that is connected to the internet first before the switch. Do you have a multi-WAN setup?

Regards,

John

NETGEAR Community Team

yagyu

Aspirant

Feb 26, 2021

Hi John

I want to have redundant firewalls in case one dies it's not a SPOF.

To achieve this I need a switch to aggregate my 2 firewalls and 1 internet circuit line.

Just like this contraption:

https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate/6.4.2/administration-guide/900885/ha-active-passive-cluster-setup

To go one better I want 2 switches in HA too if I can.

Matt

schumaku
Guru - Experienced User
Feb 27, 2021
yagyu wrote:
To go one better I want 2 switches in HA too if I can.
And a little assistant changing the link to the Internet line in the failure case?

This is what we implement in basic HA environments - you can add two additional switches on the Internet side of you desire: