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Routing between 2 firewalls on layer 3 switch

kelly-shami
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I have two fortigate firewalls on different subnet and I want to do routing between them on a layer 3 switch guide me on how to do that mind you that I still have my switch enabled for routing.

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The scenario is like this: the interface connected on the SW like eth1 and eth1 on both firewalls are having trunk and allowing different vlans and after I need to have routing between the two firewalls remember that my switch is enabled to have routing it means it is layer 3 so may I get help for the connectivity with my firewalls like the help me with ideas 

Thanks

 

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@kelly-shami hi, if you need to use L3 switch as a routing between 2 firewalls, you can create 2 subnets between FW1 - SW and FW2-SW. then option 1 is using static routing between switches and firewalls or option 2 use dynamic routing protocol like OSPF. 

but my concern is , is this real environment use case or testing use case? 

if its real use case, share the real requirement here so we can suggest best way to achieve your goal.  

Please rate this and mark as solution/answer, if this resolved your issue
Good luck
KB

kelly-shami
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Thanks for reaching out 
This is a real environment real case where the SW and two firewalls have different subnets FW1 has .5 subnet and FW2 has .3 subnet but when I want to ping the FW 1 from machine is unreachable yet FW 2 is reachable
Option 1 : Static route is the one we need because we don't have any other equipment that can act as a bridge like router for the firewall to do the routing between each other so static routing on layer 3 switch is more easy .

I reviewed different scenarios but neither didn't work 

What I need is to help me with how to configure it ?

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