L3 Core to Firewall question

My issue is in deciding whether to use the "core" switches OR the Fortigate firewall as the default gateway/L3 switch in the network. As far as my research has revealed, using the "core" for this

Network Setup for core and firewall

They all share the same core switch while having a personal firewall (obviously). If that is not your case, I would recommend following the above advice about swapping the ASA and core

Connecting Core switch to firewall

I have a 3750X four-switch stack acting as the core of a fairly simple LAN. All I need to achieve (and this seems inordinately hard, but it is entirely likely that I''m just being dense) is to get

switching

it really depends of your topology, if you do all inter-vlan routing on the core, L3, switch as it seems and then route the traffic on a /30 or /31 network to the firewall then it makes sense. We

Firewall at Edge vs Core : r/networking

Obviously I would think having a firewall at the Core switch is ideal, however sometimes this may not be possible, (depending where the ISP connection is).

Firewall Deployment: Edge vs. Core

Benefits of Core Firewall Deployment Placing firewalls at the core of your network ensures that even if a threat enters through the perimeter, it faces another layer of stringent checks. This central positioning

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