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fortilink networking question
i have about 10 fortiswitches that i will be connecting to a fortigate head end unit.
will i need a separate subnet for a transfer/net/ forti link network ?
what is best practice here?
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By default, the FortiGate will use 169.254.1.1/24 (or similar) for the FortiLink interface. You can a different subnet if you wanted to.
We keep the default Fortilink settings and add the switches to our management VLAN for SNMP, NetFlow, etc.
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