FortiGate-6000F hardware description
Fortinet Technologies Inc.
Transceiver
Description
FG-TRAN-SFP+LR
10GE SFP+ transceiver module, long range.
FG-TRAN-SFP28-SR
25GE SFP28 transceiver module, short range.
FG-TRAN-SFP28-LR
25GE SFP28 transceiver module, long range.
Transceivers available from Fortinet for the FortiGate-6000F 25 to 28 QSP28 interfaces.
Transceiver
Description
FG-TRAN-QSFP28-SR4
100GBase-SR4 QSFP28 transceiver, short range.
FG-TRAN-QSFP28-LR4
100GBase-LR4 QSFP28 transceiver, long range.
FG-TRAN-QSFP+SR
40GBase-SR4 QSFP+ transceiver, short range.
FG-TRAN-QSFP+LR
40GBase-LR4 QSFP+ transceiver, long range.
FG-TRAN-QSFP+SR-BIDI
40GBase-LR4 QSFP+ transceiver, short range, bidirectional.
Console port
You can use the USB to RJ-45 RS-232 Console port to connect to the FortiGate-6000F CLI with these settings:
Baud Rate (bps) 9600, Data bits 8, Parity None, Stop bits 1, and Flow Control None
From the Console port, you can connect to the management board (MBD) CLI of the FortiGate-6000F. You can also
press Ctrl-T to switch between the management board CLI and the CLIs of each of the FPCs in your FortiGate-6000F
(the new destination is displayed in the terminal window). The FortiGate-6500F has a management board and 10 FPCs;
11 consoles in total. The FortiGate-6300F has a management board and 6 FPCs; 7 consoles in total.
You should only make configuration changes on the management board CLI; but, you can cycle through individual FPC
consoles to use
diagnose
,
get
or
execute
commands to view information about individual FPCs and for other
operations.
Once the console port is connected to the CLI that you want to use, press Enter to enable the CLI and log in. When your
session is complete you can press Ctrl-T to connect to another CLI.
Your FortiGate-6000F package includes a USB to RJ-45 serial cable that you can use to connect a management PC
USB port to the FortiGate-6000F console port.
Fortinet USB to RJ-45 serial cable RJ-45 pinout
RJ-45
Color
Function
5
Green
Ground
3
Black
Rx
6
Yellow
Tx
FortiGate-6000F 6.4.2 System Guide
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