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Hi guys,I'm new to a lot of these concepts so maybe I'm missing something obvious, but some input would be really appreciated!Basically I'm setting up a Fortigate firewall HA pair (active/passive) and four 2960S switches in our datacentre. There wil...
Hi guys,I'll try to keep this as short as possible, any pointers and thoughts appreciated!I have two cabinets in a datacentre (with 12 CAT5 links available between them), at the moment I just have a single firewall and a very basic 3Com 2824 unmanage...
Yeah SW3 port 1 is connected to the firewall.Thanks for that, starting to get a much clearer picture here .The thing is I don't really want the switch-to-firewall links blocked by STP, ideally I want them AND the inter-switch links forwarding so that...
Yeah that certainly seems to be how it is behaving, again maybe this is normal but it doesn't seem optimal to me .SW1-S1RAC4#show spanning-tree vlan 50VLAN0050 Spanning tree enabled protocol ieee Root ID Priority 32818 Address ...
Thanks for the reply Aninda,Here's an excerpt from the Fortigate admin guide that might help - "The FortiGate unit does not participate in the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP). STP is an IEEE 802.1 protocol that ensures there are no layer-2 loops on the ...
Fair enough thanks, LAN Base it is!Can I ask one more question - am I mad to be considering the 2960 (10/100 only) rather than the 2960S (10/100/1000 on all ports)? The speed out of the datacentre is only 100MB/s and there isn't a huge amount of int...
That's a very good point in fairness, I have contacted Cisco to see about refurbed equipment. I wonder if you could cast your eye down the thread to my last response at the bottom as I give some ideas about what I need the switches for there and yo...
