Category Archives: FortiSwitch

InfoSec Monkey Lab – Update

Getting a new server and setting up the new lab.  I will be creating a detailed post and possibly a…

By Manny Fernandez

January 26, 2026

MAC Sticky Ports on FortiSwitch

I have a customer that is using point-of-sale devices that are connected via wired Ethernet connections.  One of the counter-measures…

By Manny Fernandez

January 18, 2026

Port Mirroring on FortiLink’d FortiSwitch

Customer Use Case:  Customer has some UCAAS voice solution.  They want to be able to record phone calls for wire…

By Manny Fernandez

February 3, 2021

Packet Capture on FortiSwitch

While I was troubleshooting my bridging lab article, I stumbled onto a great feature in the FortiSwitch. I was instantly…

By Manny Fernandez

February 2, 2020

Bridged FortiAPs and Managing Remote Switches Across the Bridge

I cannot tell you how many times we run into this.  Sometimes its a stopgap for a customer that is…

By Manny Fernandez

February 2, 2020

Fortinet Ports and Protocols

If you are ever wondering what ports needs to be open for various Fortinet products to interact and struggled to…

By Manny Fernandez

January 7, 2020

Useful Fortiswitch CLI commands and settings

So I "grew up" on the Cisco CLI.  Later moved to Linux and loved it.  I am now on a…

By Manny Fernandez

June 8, 2019

Fortigate / Scrutinizer NetFlow Deployment

Today I had a customer talking to me about Netflow and the Fortigate.  To demonstrate the functionality, I decided to…

By Manny Fernandez

May 2, 2019

Perimeter Switch Configuration with Fortiswitch (Non-Fortilink)

One of the designs I normally do for customers when they purchase Highly Available firewalls is HA perimeter switches.  When…

By Manny Fernandez

May 1, 2019

Fortilink over TCP

If you are not familiar with FortiLink, you should get familiar with it. Fortilink allows you to manage FortiSwitches via…

By Manny Fernandez

January 28, 2019

Configuring LLDP for Cisco IP Phones on Stand Alone FortiSwitch

As you may or may not know, Fortinet makes switches and they are doing very well from a saturation perspective.…

By Manny Fernandez

December 3, 2018

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