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Meaning of different Interface states

L2 Linker

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.

 

 

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Cyber Elite
Cyber Elite

@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. 

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L5 Sessionator

Hi @jmarchant

 

https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/documentation/80/pan-os/web-interface-help/network/network-interfac...

 

The various link states for Ethernet interfaces are:

 

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

Thanks,

Luke.

 

@LukeBullimore

 

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

Cyber Elite
Cyber Elite

@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. 

@jmarchant,

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

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