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Catalyst 2900 Series XL Hardware Installation Guide
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Chapter 1 Product Overview
100BASE-FX Ports
Table 1-7 Meanings of Port Status LED Colors for Different Modes on Catalyst 2912 XL, 2924C XL,
2924 XL, 2924MF XL, and 2924M XL Switches
Port Mode Port LED Color Meaning
STAT
(port status)
Off No link.
Solid green Link present.
Flashing green Activity. Port is transmitting or receiving data.
Alternating
green-amber
Link fault. Error frames can affect connectivity, and errors such as
excessive collisions, CRC errors, and alignment and jabber errors
are monitored for a link-fault indication.
Solid amber Port is not forwarding. Port was disabled by management or an
address violation or was blocked by Spanning Tree Protocol (STP).
Note After a port is reconfigured, the port LED can remain
amber for up to 30 seconds as STP checks the switch for
possible loops.
UTL
(utilization)
Green The LEDs display backplane utilization on a logarithmic scale.
If all port LEDs are green, the switch is using 50 percent or more
of its total bandwidth capacity. If the right-most LED is amber, the
switch is using less than 50 percent of its total bandwidth. If the
LED to the left of the right-most LED is amber, the switch is using
less than 25 percent of its total capacity, and so on.
See Figure 1-7 for details.
FDUP
(port duplex)
Off Port is operating in half duplex.
Green Port is operating in full duplex.
100
(port speed)
Off Portisoperatingat10Mbps.
Green Port is operating at 100 Mbps.
