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Chapter3 Getting Started with CMS
Front Panel View
VLAN Membership Modes
Ports in the Front Panel view are outlined by colors (Table 3-6 ) when you click Highlight VLAN Port
Membership Modes on the Configure VLANs tab on the VLAN window
(VLAN > VLAN > Configure VLANs). The colors show the VLAN membership mode of each port.
The VLAN membership mode determines the kind of traffic the port carrie s and the number of VLANs
it can belong to. For more information about these modes, see t he VLAN Port Membership Modes
section on page 13-3.
Note This feature is not supported on the Catalyst 1900 and Catalyst 2820 switches.
Table3-5 Port LEDs
Port Mode Port LED Color Description
STAT Cyan (off) No link.
Green Link present.
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.
Port is not forwarding. Port was disabled by management, by an address viol atio n,
or by Spanning Tree Protocol (STP).
Note After a port is reconfigured, the port LED can remain amber for up to
30 se conds as STP chec ks the switch for possible lo ops.
Brown No link and port is administrat ively shut down.
DUPLX Cyan (off) Port is operating in half-duplex mode.
Green Port is operating in full-duplex mode.
SPEED Cyan (off) Port is operating at 10 Mbps (10/100 ports) or no link (1 0/100/1000 ports and GBIC
module ports).
Green Port is operating at 100 Mbps (10/100 ports) or 1000 Mbps (GBIC module ports).
Blinking green Port is op er ati ng at 10 00 M bps (10 /100/1 000 po rts).
Table3-6 VLAN Membership Modes
Mode Color
Static access Light green
Dynamic access Pink
802.1Q trunk Peach
Negotiate trunk White