In the middle of a live VLAN readressing of a 200-node company, I encountered this gem. The ports just kept blinking on even after plugging out the cables. (HP aruba 24 port switch)

One turned off after a reboot.

  • Blaster M@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    The lights are combined link/act, not separate link act. left for upper side, right for lower side. 2 and 4 are blinking, 1 and 3 (the empty ports) are not.

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        8 days ago

        client had 2 near identical switches, one had LEDs on each port, one had LEDs all on top, I was looking at each port wondering why they weren’t lighting up and thinking they were disabled in admin panel. took me a few minutes, I was an idiot that day.

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      8 days ago

      Really? I’ve never seen that. In my experience, those labels are for the ports themselves, not the lights.