Check The Leds - Cisco PIX 501 - Security Appliance Quick Start Manual

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Check the LEDs

CISCO PIX 501
F I R E W A L L
The LINK/ACT LED indicators on the front panel of the PIX Firewall are normally solid green when
a link is established and flashing green when the ports are active. Each inside Ethernet interface
(1 through 4) has two LEDs to indicate the operating speed and that the physical link is established.
Note If all LEDs are operating as expected (see Table 1), this concludes the hardware installation. The
pages that follow include instructions on running PDM and additional optional procedures.
Table 1 PIX 501 LEDs
LED State
POWER Green
Off
LINK/ACT Flashing
green
Green
Off
VPN TUNNEL Green
Off
100 MBPS Green
Flashing
green
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POWER
VPN TUNNEL
Description
The device is powered on.
The device is powered off.
Network activity, such as Internet access, is present.
The correct cable is in use, and the connected equipment has power.
No link is established.
Tip If the LINK/ACT LED does not light up, you might be using the
wrong type of cable. Try replacing the yellow (straight-through)
Ethernet cable with the orange (crossover) Ethernet cable.
One or more IKE/IPSec VPN tunnels are active.
No VPN tunnels are active. The default configuration does not include
VPN. Thus, the VPN tunnel LED will only be enabled if VPN is added to
your configuration and a VPN tunnel is then established. Also, the LED
does not light up when PPTP/L2TP tunnels are established.
The interface is autonegotiated at 100-Mbps half or full duplex.
The interface is functioning at 10-Mbps half or full duplex.
LINK/ACT
100 MBPS
0 1 2 3 4