Chapter 1: Hardware Overview

Table 10: Fiber Port LEDs

LED

State

Description

LINK ACT

Glows green

Link is present.

 

Flashes green

Activity.

 

Off

No link present.

LINK SPD

Green

Connection is 100 Mbps.

 

Yellow

Connection is 1 Gbps.

 

Orange

Connection is 10 Gbps.

 

Off

If LINK ACT is on, the connection is 10 Mbps. If LINK ACT

 

 

is off, LINK SPD off indicates no link is present as well.

BYP

Green

Interface is not in bypass mode.

 

Yellow

Interface is in bypass mode.

 

Off

Interface is turned off (NICs off state).

NOTE: For fiber interface ports, if failure or shutdown triggers NICs off state, LINK ACT and LINK SPD LEDs remain lit.

Traffic Interface Features

In IDP deployments, pairs of traffic interfaces are implemented as virtual routers. For example, interface ports eth2 and eth3 form a virtual router vr1. For each virtual router, you use the Appliance Configuration Manager (ACM) to configure the deployment mode (sniffer or transparent) and bypass options (internal, external, or off). The following topics describe these settings:

Deployment Mode on page 10

Internal Bypass on page 10

NICs Off on page 11

External Bypass on page 12

For guidance on using ACM to configure virtual router settings, see the ACM online help.

Traffic Interface Ports

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Juniper Networks IDP250 manual Traffic Interface Features

IDP250 specifications

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