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sagvan
Explorer II
May 17, 2025
Question

Amber Color Port LED

  • May 17, 2025
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Hello, dears!
I hope this message finds you well.

 

On our Fortigate, we have 2 lines, one for backup. The backup cable (LAN) comes from an antena, and we have used an injector to give it power.

 

The port LED turned amber and doesn't blink. This has happened before, and I kept moving to a new port, which have made me use around 3 ports for the same line. This is so annoying to configure new ports for the same purpose.

 

EDIT: The problem is the connection is shown on the SD-WAN Zone, but with very low speeds of bps, making it not usable at all.

 

Now, it has happened again. I don't know ho to solve this.

 

NOTE:

- The line works when I connect it to my PC directly.

- We have used SD WAN Rules and Firewall Policies to make different SSIDs use the Main line and Backup line.

 

#Fortigate 

2 replies

funkylicious
SuperUser
SuperUser
May 17, 2025

hi,

according to this, https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate/7.4.1/administration-guide/997251/leds solid color means connected, amber could just mean it's negociating 100M , e.g. for 30/50 models - https://fortinetweb.s3.amazonaws.com/docs.fortinet.com/v2/attachments/c6f59d53-1a12-11e9-9685-f8bc1258b856/FG-FWF-30E-50E-51E-Supplement.pdf 

 

Ethernet Ports Speed

Green: Connected at 1Gbps

Amber: Connected at 100Mbps

Off: Not connected or connected at 10Mbps

"jack of all trades, master of none"
sagvan
sagvanAuthor
Explorer II
May 17, 2025

The problem is the connection is shown on the SD-WAN Zone, but with very low speeds of bps.

funkylicious
SuperUser
SuperUser
May 17, 2025

so, connecting it to a laptop and doing speed tests are giving you better Mbps in terms of speed, than it connected to the FGT and doing similar tests?

"jack of all trades, master of none"
iamakk
Explorer
May 17, 2025

To achieve this, you need to manually create an SD-WAN rule to route certain traffic through the backup link. This is expected behavior, as all your traffic currently goes through the main link.

sagvan
sagvanAuthor
Explorer II
May 18, 2025

@iamakk 

I already have that since the first day we used SD-WAN.

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