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Two Switches Trunked - ports are amber on one and green on the other

Hello,

I have a 2960X trunked to a Nexus 9K.

On the 2960 the trunk port amber and is:

switchport trunk allowed vlan 10,100
switchport trunk native vlan 100
switchport mode trunk

On the 9K the trunk port is green and is:

switchport
switchport mode trunk
switchport trunk native vlan 100
switchport trunk allowed vlan 10,100
no shutdown

There seems to be no problems with anything and no errors in either of the switches logs.

Any ideas as to why the 2960 switch port is amber?

I'm working on this remotely and wanted to know if anyone knows a way if after I make any changes that I would be able to know somehow if the led changes to green?

Thank you!

 

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acampbell
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Hi,

You should have a look at the C2960X install guide:-
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/catalyst2960x/hardware/installation/guide/b_c2960x_hig/b_c2960x_hig_chapter_01.html

Look down at port LED section
An amber LED for your port can mean "STP Blocking" for example.

Hope this helps

Regards, Alex. Please rate useful posts.

balaji.bandi
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what kind of cable ? Ethernet or Fibre ?

can you post the associated interface output both the side as below output :

show interface gi x/x

show vlan

show spab block

Note : if the port is working only you see solid orange ( error disable, spanning-tree negotiation, Trunk to access port mismatch) , this may be duplex mismatch ( all my views as assumptions so far until we see the outputs)

 

 

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I have new vlans and the same thing. Here's the output as requested.

I have a 2960X trunked to a Nexus 9K.

On the 2960 the trunk port amber and is:

switchport trunk allowed vlan 170,949
switchport trunk native vlan 949
switchport mode trunk

On the 9K the trunk port is green and is:

switchport
switchport mode trunk
switchport trunk native vlan 949
switchport trunk allowed vlan 170,949
no shutdown

On the 2960:

GigabitEthernet1/0/28 is up, line protocol is up (connected)
Hardware is Gigabit Ethernet, address is bcf1.f266.e49c (bia bcf1.f266.e49c)
Description: ****
MTU 1500 bytes, BW 1000000 Kbit/sec, DLY 10 usec,
reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255
Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set
Keepalive not set
Full-duplex, 1000Mb/s, link type is auto, media type is 1000BaseSX SFP
input flow-control is off, output flow-control is unsupported
ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00
Last input 00:00:00, output 00:00:08, output hang never
Last clearing of "show interface" counters never
Input queue: 0/75/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 0
Queueing strategy: fifo
Output queue: 0/40 (size/max)
5 minute input rate 39000 bits/sec, 28 packets/sec
5 minute output rate 942000 bits/sec, 90 packets/sec
1413876 packets input, 301646428 bytes, 0 no buffer
Received 68858 broadcasts (59843 multicasts)
0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles
0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored
0 watchdog, 59843 multicast, 0 pause input
0 input packets with dribble condition detected
3586971 packets output, 4301698483 bytes, 0 underruns
0 output errors, 0 collisions, 1 interface resets
0 unknown protocol drops
0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred
0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier, 0 pause output
0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out

2960X-01#sh spanning-tree block

Name Blocked Interfaces List
-------------------- ------------------------------------

Number of blocked ports (segments) in the system : 0

under show vlans command - all vlans are active

 

On the 9K:

Ethernet1/36 is up
admin state is up, Dedicated Interface
Hardware: 100/1000/10000/25000 Ethernet, address: a8b4.5602.b15b (bia a8b4.5602.b15b)
Description: ****
MTU 1500 bytes, BW 1000000 Kbit, DLY 10 usec
reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255
Encapsulation ARPA, medium is broadcast
Port mode is trunk
full-duplex, 1000 Mb/s, media type is 1G
Beacon is turned off
Auto-Negotiation is turned on FEC mode is Auto
Input flow-control is off, output flow-control is off
Auto-mdix is turned off
Rate mode is dedicated
Switchport monitor is off
EtherType is 0x8100
EEE (efficient-ethernet) : n/a
admin fec state is auto, oper fec state is off
Last link flapped 15:17:47
Last clearing of "show interface" counters never
7 interface resets
Load-Interval #1: 30 seconds
30 seconds input rate 956496 bits/sec, 87 packets/sec
30 seconds output rate 41464 bits/sec, 23 packets/sec
input rate 956.50 Kbps, 87 pps; output rate 41.46 Kbps, 23 pps
Load-Interval #2: 5 minute (300 seconds)
300 seconds input rate 958008 bits/sec, 78 packets/sec
300 seconds output rate 46816 bits/sec, 16 packets/sec
input rate 958.01 Kbps, 78 pps; output rate 46.82 Kbps, 16 pps
RX
3391075152 unicast packets 30100247 multicast packets 14874241 broadcast packets
3436049641 input packets 4504220507493 bytes
2362362 jumbo packets 0 storm suppression bytes
0 runts 0 giants 1 CRC 0 no buffer
1 input error 0 short frame 0 overrun 0 underrun 0 ignored
0 watchdog 0 bad etype drop 0 bad proto drop 0 if down drop
0 input with dribble 0 input discard
0 Rx pause
TX
1356322727 unicast packets 1802220 multicast packets 4254941 broadcast packets
1362379889 output packets 194226039252 bytes
72893 jumbo packets
1 output error 0 collision 0 deferred 0 late collision
0 lost carrier 0 no carrier 0 babble 0 output discard
0 Tx pause

NEXUS9K-CORE# show spanning-tree blockedports
NEXUS9K-CORE#

show vlans command - all are active

Cable is MM fiber and using MM SFP on each switch.

Note: It is only the 2960X switch that has the solid amber LED, the 9K is Green solid.

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