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MontanaMike
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Dead Ports

Good morning,

 

Has anyone every seen a Fortiswitch with dead ports?  I have a standalone 448E (7.2.3) that has 3 adjacent ethernet ports that are dead.  When you plug anything into them you get no link lights.  All the ports are administratively up so thats not it either.

 

If anyone has an diagnostic or otherwise suggestions or comments, I'd really appreciate it.  This units support contract has expired so I can't contact Fortinet about it.

-Mike

-Mike
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ebilcari

The only solution is to renew the support contract and RMA this device. I don't see a way how to revive these ports.

- Emirjon
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spoojary
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MontanaMike

It's a standalone switch so none of that troubleshooting will work.

-Mike

-Mike
sbabu
Staff
Staff

Please check to change the cable on those ports. If no progress then try to reboot the switch and check if the LED blinks. 

 

Shaik Babu
ebilcari
Staff
Staff

You can use the these commands to see if they give you some more details what's happening "# diagnose switch physical-ports xxx port" like:

# diagnose switch physical-ports cable-diag port2

Dealing with copper and other devices with electrical grounding problems it can fry up the port, it's rare but it happens. In case this link is used to connect end host check the host, if this link connects different part of networks (different buildings) optical fiber is recommended.

- Emirjon
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MontanaMike

It appears those ports (13, 14 and 15) are fried.  Symptoms started when a printer stopped accepting jobs like it was disconnected from the network.  Checking the cables, replacing the ethernet cable, etc didn't resolved however when I switched to a new port in the same vlan it came up and has been working normally since.  Moving it back in the original port and its dead.  Through trial and error we found those 3 ports didn't work as the should.   Other than the diagnose commands I ran below, I'm unsure if there is any more that might help expose what the problem is.  

 

diagnose switch physical-ports list
<name> Physical port name.

FS4 # diagnose switch physical-ports list port14

Port(port14) is HW Admin up, SW Admin up, line protocol is up
Interface Type is Serial Gigabit Media Independent Interface(SGMII/SerDes)
Address is D4:76:A0:4B:E4:2F, None loopback
MTU 9216 bytes, Encapsulation IEEE 802.3/Ethernet-II
full-duplex, 100 Mb/s, link type is auto
input : 981795 bytes, 4567 packets, 1268 errors, 1 drops, 0 oversizes
3175 unicasts, 86 multicasts, 38 broadcasts, 0 unknowns
output : 16447295 bytes, 13177 packets, 0 errors, 0 drops, 0 oversizes
11964 unicasts, 803 multicasts, 410 broadcasts
2 fragments, 0 undersizes, 0 collisions, 0 jabbers

 

 

FS4 # diagnose switch physical-ports port-stats list port14
 
    port14 Port Stats:  
 
Rx Bytes:                                       1004890
Rx Packets:                                        4629
Rx Unicasts:                                       3233
Rx NUnicasts:                                       128
Rx Multicasts:                                       90
Rx Broadcasts:                                       38
Rx Discards:                                          1
Rx Errors:                                         1268
Rx Oversize:                                          0
Rx Pauses:                                            0
Rx IPMC Dropped:                                      0
Rx 64 Octets Packets:                              2757
Rx 65-127 Octets Packets:                           647
Rx 128-255 Octets Packets:                          317
Rx 256-511 Octets Packets:                          201
Rx 512-1023 Octets Packets:                         443
Rx 1024-1518 OctetsPackets:                         266
Rx 1519-2047 Octets Packets:                          1
Rx 2048-4095 Octets Packets:                          0
Rx 4096-9216 Octets Packets:                          0
Rx 9217-16383 Octets Packets:                         0
Rx L3 Packets:                                        0
Tx Bytes:                                      16488640
Tx Packets:                                       13554
Tx Unicasts:                                      12059
Tx NUnicasts:                                      1495
Tx Multicasts:                                      993
Tx Broadcasts:                                      502
Tx Discards:                                          0
Tx Errors:                                            0
Tx Oversize:                                          0
Tx Pauses:                                            0
Tx IPMC Dropped:                                      0
Tx 64 Octets Packets:                               708
Tx 65-127 Octets Packets:                          1528
Tx 128-255 Octets Packets:                          453
Tx 256-511 Octets Packets:                          163
Tx 512-1023 Octets Packets:                          81
Tx 1024-1518 Octets Packets:                      10621
Tx 1519-2047 Octets Packets:                          0
Tx 2048-4095 Octets Packets:                          0
Tx 4096-9216 Octets Packets:                          0
Tx 9217-16383 Octets Packets:                         0
Fragments:                                            2
Undersize:                                            0
Jabbers:                                              0
Collisions:                                           0
CRC Alignment Errors:                              1266
IPMC Bridged:                                        82
IPMC Routed:                                          0
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

-Mike

-Mike
ebilcari

The only solution is to renew the support contract and RMA this device. I don't see a way how to revive these ports.

- Emirjon
If you have found a solution, please like and accept it to make it easily accessible for others.
MontanaMike

Yeah..I was just hoping that I could get verification from the switch itself that those ports are toast.  I'll see about renewing the contract and sending it in for repair/replacement.

-Mike

-Mike
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