FortiGate-500D fast path architecture

Chapter 8 Hardware Acceleration : FortiGate NP6 architectures : FortiGate-500D fast path architecture

The FortiGate-500D includes one NP6 processor connected to eight 1Gb SFP interfaces (port1-port8 and eight 1Gb RJ-45 Ethernet ports (port9-16).

You can use the following command to display the FortiGate-500D NP6 configuration. The command output shows one NP6 named NP6_0 and the interfaces (ports) connected to it.

diagnose npu np6 port-list

Chip XAUI Ports Max Cross-chip

Speed offloading

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np6_0 0

1 port10 1G Yes

1 port9 1G Yes

1 port12 1G Yes

1 port11 1G Yes

1 port14 1G Yes

1 port13 1G Yes

1 port16 1G Yes

1 port15 1G Yes

1 port5 1G Yes

1 port7 1G Yes

1 port8 1G Yes

1 port6 1G Yes

1 port3 1G Yes

1 port4 1G Yes

1 port1 1G Yes

1 port2 1G Yes

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