The front panel also contains three groups of status indicator light-emitting diodes (LEDs),
including Power and Test LEDs, LAN LEDs, and WAN LEDs, all of which are described in
detail in the following table. Some LED explanation is provided on the front panel.
Power
Left LAN LEDs
(green, one for each port)
LED
Test LED
Figure 2. Front panel
The following table describes the function of each LED.
Table 1. LED descriptions
LED
Activity
Power LED
On (green)
Off
Test LED
On (amber) during
startup
On (amber) during
any other time
Blinking (amber)
Off
NETGEAR ProSAFE VPN Firewall FVS318G v2
Right LAN LEDs
(one for each port)
Description
Power is supplied to the VPN firewall.
Power is not supplied to the VPN firewall.
Test mode. The VPN firewall is initializing. After approximately two minutes,
when the VPN firewall completes its initialization, the Test LED turns off.
The initialization failed, or a hardware failure occurred.
The VPN firewall is writing to flash memory (during upgrading or resetting to
defaults).
The VPN firewall booted successfully.
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Left WAN LED
(green)
Right WAN LED
Active WAN LED
DMZ LED