04-25-2023 11:10 PM
Can we make Etherchannels to increase the bandwidth towards core switch from FPR 1120 or 2120? We have 1 GBPS ports only at firewall side and from the core switch to FPR, we required 2 GBPS speed to allow routing via firewall. The firewalls will be configured in HA mode.
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04-26-2023 03:25 AM
If you want to increase your total bandwidth usage you will need to install at the very least FTD 1150 and then use the 10G SFP ports on it. All the other FTDs in the 1000 series only support 1G SFP.
04-26-2023 12:20 AM
@inhamit yes you can bundle 2-8 interfaces in an etherchannel.
04-26-2023 01:56 AM
Can we configure FPR as NTP server? Firewall will get a NTP source from GPS clock server.
04-26-2023 02:04 AM
@inhamit you can configure the FTD to synchronise it's time from an NTP source, this could be the FMC or another NTP server.https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/secure-firewall/management-center/device-config/720/management-center-device-config-72/interfaces-settings-platform.html?bookSearch=true#task_9EE0ACB2B95B4D59892E2BCE2CACDC33
04-26-2023 02:48 AM
What are your expectations here? Yes, you can bundle 1Gbps ports to help improve utilisation, but you will still be limited to 1 Gbps throughput. Bundling two 1 Gbps ports does not mean you will now have 2Gbps throughput, it just means that you will have two 1 Gbps ports to send traffic over.
04-26-2023 02:51 AM
I want to have 2 GBPS throughput to increase the bandwidth. If etherchannel will not work in this case to increase the bandwidth, what will be the ideal solution?
04-26-2023 03:25 AM
If you want to increase your total bandwidth usage you will need to install at the very least FTD 1150 and then use the 10G SFP ports on it. All the other FTDs in the 1000 series only support 1G SFP.
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