Table 1-5 – Cisco 3550 User Manual

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Catalyst 3550 Switch Hardware Installation Guide

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Chapter 1 Product Overview

Front-Panel Description

SPEED

Port speed

The port operating speed: 10, 100, or 1000 Mbps.

LINE PWR

2

Port inline power

The inline power status: on or off.

1.

Not available on Catalyst 3550-24PWR switches

2.

Available only on Catalyst 3550-24PWR switches

Table 1-5

Meaning of LED Colors in Different Modes

Port Mode

LED Color

Meaning

STATUS
(port status)

Off

No link, or port was administratively shut down.

Solid green

Link present.

Blinking green

Activity. Port is sending 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 blocked by Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) and is not
forwarding data.

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.

Blinking amber Port is blocked by STP and is sending or receiving packets.

UTIL

1

(utilization)

1.

Not available on Catalyst 3550-24PWR switches

Green

Port LEDs display backplane utilization on a logarithmic scale. (See

Figure 1-4

through

Figure 1-8

.)

Amber

Peak total backplane utilization over the last 24 hours.

DUPLX
(duplex)

Off

Port is operating in half duplex.

Green

Port is operating in full duplex.

SPEED

10/100 and 10/100/1000 ports

Off

Port is operating at 10 Mbps.

Green

Port is operating at 100 Mbps.

Blinking green

Port is operating at 1000 Mbps.

GBIC ports

Off

Port is not operating.

Blinking green

Port is operating at 1000 Mbps.

LINE PWR

2

2.

Available only on Catalyst 3550-24PWR switches

Off

Inline power is off.

Green

Inline power is on.

If the Cisco IP Phone is receiving power from an AC power source,
the port LED is off even if the IP phone is connected to the switch
port. The LED turns green only when the switch port is providing
power.

Table 1-4

Port Mode LEDs (continued)

Mode LED

Port Mode

Description

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