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    • N
      newberger
      last edited by

      Ok - very basic, but I can't find it anywhere.  What exactly do the I/O port lights indicate?  My WAN has the left light blinking, while LAN has blinking left light and solid right light.  Status on the dashboard looks correct.

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        newberger
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        Hi there - any clarification would be appreciated.  I do understand that the blinking light indicates activity and generally the solid light would indicate the connection type by color.  Usually I assume green to be 1GB. I don't know why there is not a connection light on the WAN.

        Apologies if I have missed something obvious, but I have reviewed the forum, the Wiki, SG-3100 manual and even tried looking on the Marvell site for info on the switch.  AFIAK there is no industry standard, hence my question.

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        • GrimsonG
          Grimson Banned
          last edited by

          @newberger:

          I do understand that the blinking light indicates activity and generally the solid light would indicate the connection type by color.  Usually I assume green to be 1GB. I don't know why there is not a connection light on the WAN.

          On some switches (Netgear for example) the connection type is not indicated by color, but rather by the state of the LED. It is on for 1GBit/s and off for 100Mbit/s.

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            newberger
            last edited by

            Thanks for the correction.

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            • jimpJ
              jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
              last edited by

              The LED behavior for the WAN and OPT1 ports is different from the behavior of the LAN switch ports. They are all documented here now: https://www.netgate.com/docs/pfsense/sg-3100/io-ports.html

              That was just added in the last couple days.

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                newberger
                last edited by

                Thanks very much, that's exactly what I was looking for!

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