Cisco – Understanding Port Lights on Cisco 6500 Switch

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I was wondering if anyone knows if there is a way to change how to port lights function on a 6500 switch.

Most switches work like this…

  • No Light – Port in shutdown or no connection
  • Solid Orange – Port error (spanning-tree issue, truck issue, etc…)
  • Flashing Orange – Duplex error
  • Flashing Green – Working

On the cisco 6500 it works like this…

  • Solid Orange – Port Shutdown
  • Flashing Orange – Duplex error
  • Flashing Green – Working

Which is fine except I'm colourblind and its extremely difficult to tell the orange apart from the green led so if anyone know of a way to change this it would help be greatly the internet seems to say this is just the way it is but maybe its wrong.

Best Answer

Sorry to say that this isn't a configurable item.