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Meaning of different Interface states

jmarchant — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 20:19:12 GMT

I have scourred everywhere......

What are the differences between the interface states? I can't find anything anywhere!!

ukn/ukn/down(power-down)

disabled/down

forced/ukn

forced/down

If there are others I have missed, I'd love to be enlightened.

Re: Meaning of different Interface states

LukeBullimore — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 20:26:56 GMT

Hi @jmarchant

https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/documentation/80/pan-os/web-interface-help/network/network-interfaces/common-building-blocks-for-firewall-interfaces#id7f739152-9cf4-4a09-95b6-61e21a86ce65

The various link states for Ethernet interfaces are:

Green—Configured and up
Red—Configured but down or disabled
Gray—Not configured

Thanks,

Luke.

Re: Meaning of different Interface states

jmarchant — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 20:29:19 GMT

@LukeBullimore

Unfortuantly I do not have webgui access for this enviornment, only CLI.

Re: Meaning of different Interface states

BPry — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 21:21:31 GMT

@jmarchant,

Are you looking at the speed/duplex/state information?

ukn/ukn/down(power-down) is when you set the Link-State to Disable

disabled/down: You've disabled the interface.

forced/ukn: You've forced the speed/duplex setting and the status of the interface is unknown. Usually caused by unsupported SFPs or if you statically set the link-state to up but the interface is unplugged.

forced/down: You've forced the speed/duplex settings and the interface is down.

Re: Meaning of different Interface states

BPry — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 21:26:19 GMT

@jmarchant,

Also you may want to update your code version. Those are pretty old and don't really come into play on newer releases.