What’s new in FortiSwitchOS 7.6.2

Release 7.6.2 provides the following new features:

• Stacking support for the FortiSwitch-6xxF series. FortiSwitch stacking allows up to four switches to operate as if they were one switch.

  NOTE: This feature requires a special firmware image. Refer to the FortiSwitch Stacking Deployment Guide for switching features available in the stacking operation.

• When the airflow differs on variants of the same switch model of supported platforms, the airflow direction is displayed on both the Dashboard and in the About This Switch dialog.

• BGP EVPN multihoming is now supported. Multihoming allows a user device to be connected to multiple FortiSwitch units for redundancy.

• You can now use the FortiSwitch unit as a Network Time Protocol (NTP) server. This feature is supported with both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.

• You can now use the Precision Time Protocol (PTP) to synchronize your system clock. Previously, you could use NTP or manually set your system clock. If you are not using NTP, you can manually set the difference in time between your system clock and the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) or automatically set the difference in time between your system clock and UTC using the time source.

• The set private-data-encryption {enable | disable} command is no longer under the config system global command. Instead, use the execute system private-data-encryption set <32-digit hexadecimal number> command to specify a private data encryption key for non-administrator passwords. If you want to disable private data encryption, use the execute system private-data-encryption clear command.

• You can now use the CLI to set the maximum amount of power on power over Ethernet (PoE) ports to 30 W, 60 W, or the maximum amount of power for the detected device class according to the 802.3af/at/bt standards. This feature allows devices to use more power than announced by its class.

  This feature is supported on the FSR-108F, FSR-112F-POE, FSR-216F-POE, FSR-424F-POE, FS-108F-POE, FS-108F-FPOE, FS-110G-FPOE, FS-124E-POE, FS-124E-FPOE, FS-124F-POE, FS-124F-FPOE, FS-124G-FPOE, FS-148E-POE, FS-148F-POE, FS-148F-FPOE, FS-224D-FPOE, FS-224E-POE, FS-248E-POE, FS-248E-FPOE, FS-424E-POE, FS-424E-FPOE, FS-M426E-FPOE, FS-448E-POE, FS-448E-FPOE, FS-524D-FPOE, FS-548D-FPOE, FS-624F-FPOE, FS-648F-FPOE, and FS-T1024F-FPOE models.

  The 60-W maximum power mode setting is available on the FS-624F-FPOE, FS-648F-FPOE, FS-T1024F-FPOE, and FS-110G-FPOE models only.

• The FS-6xxF models now support running a time-domain reflectometer (TDR) diagnostic test on a specific port.

• When you are using MAC Authentication Bypass (MAB) with 802.1X authentication, you can now limit the number of sessions allowed on a port. Limiting the number of devices or PCs per port helps increase the security of the network.

• The FS-6xxF models now support more access control list (ACL) classifiers and ACL actions.

• The FS-448E model now supports two Media Redundancy Protocol (MRP) rings.

• A new CLI command, diagnose sys firmware info, reports whether the BIOS image and firmware image have valid signatures.

• The following transceiver parameters are now supported in entitySensorMIB:

  • temperature

  • voltage

  • laser_bias

  • tx_power

  • rx_power

Refer to the FortiSwitch feature matrix for details about the features supported by each FortiSwitch model.