Orange light

See the pic below. Ports 11 and 12 on my 2950s are trunks. They are set for speed 100, full duplex on both ends. For some reason port 11 on switch 2 is showing an orange light. I swapped the cables and the issue remains. I hit the MODE switch and checked speed and duplex and they show up correctly.

Ideas?

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networker050184

I'd guess that port is blocking.

cyberguypr

No switchport security active

networker050184

cyberguypr wrote: »

No switchport security active

I meant spanning-tree. Unplug the other cable, give it a minute and see if it greens up. Or a show spanning-tree and verify the port state.

tomaifauchai

Edited:

Catalyst 2950 Switch Hardware Installation Guide, August 2004 - Overview [Cisco Catalyst 2950 Series Switches] - Cisco Systems

Solid amber
Port is not forwarding. Port was disabled by management, an address violation, or Spanning Tree Protocol (STP).
Note

After a port is reconfigured, the port LED can remain amber for up to 30 seconds while STP checks the switch for possible loops.

If you want to bundle 2 links togheter to form a single trunk, maybe you should look at this

Lab 4 - Configuring EtherChannel on Two Cisco 2950 Switches | Networkfoo

cyberguypr

Ah! I should stop trying to get ahead of myself.

Show spanning-tree confirmed the issue:

Interface Role Sts Cost Prio.Nbr Type

---- ---

Fa0/1 Desg FWD 19 128.1 P2p
Fa0/2 Desg FWD 19 128.2 P2p
Fa0/11 Altn BLK 19 128.11 P2p
Gi0/2 Root FWD 4 128.14 P2p

Thanks to both of you.