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Hello,
I’m facing an issue with a new 9100 cluster, trying to connect it to an old 4500 (specificaly a WS-X4306-GB card) but all ports remain in the state « down (notconnect) » (4 ports in total, on both member of the cluster so I’m rejecting a connection issue). Below some outputs :
Firewall2> show asset network
Number of line cards: 1
Line card 1 model: CPAC-8-1/10F-D
Line card 1 type: 8 ports 1/10GbE Fiber Rev 1.0
Firewall2> show interface eth1-02
state on
mac-addr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
type ethernet
link-state link down
mtu 1500
auto-negotiation off
speed N/A
ipv6-autoconfig Not configured
monitor-mode Not configured
duplex N/A
link-speed 1000M/full
comments
ipv4-address Not Configured
ipv6-address Not Configured
ipv6-local-link-address Not Configured
Firewall2> show interface eth1-02 xcvr_detail
eth1-02 SFP is present
Product Type: 10G Base-SR
Vendor name: FINISAR CORP.
Vendor PN: FTLX8574D3BCL
Vendor rev: A
Vendor SN: xx
Laser wavelength: 850nm
Link Length for SMF,km: 0km
Link Length for SMF: 0m
Link Length for 50um: 80m
Link Length for 62.5um: 30m
Link Length for Copper: 0m
Link Length for OM3: 300m
No tx fault, No rx loss
Router2#show interfaces Gi2/6
GigabitEthernet2/6 is down, line protocol is down (notconnect)
Hardware is Gigabit Ethernet Port, address is xxxx.xxxx.xxxx (bia xxxx.xxxx.xxxx)
Description: Firewall 2
MTU 1500 bytes, BW 1000000 Kbit, DLY 10 usec,
reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255
Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set
Keepalive set (10 sec)
Full-duplex, 1000Mb/s, link type is force-up, media type is 1000BaseSX
For me, transceivers seem good on both ends. On router side, there is nothing much I can configure on the port expect of a « speed nonegotiate » which doesn’t change the behavior. On Checkpoint side, I’ve forced the speed and duplex to match the router’s but without a change either :
Router2#sh run int Gi2/6
interface Firewall2
description NS_RESA_U142018_FWVTECH
speed nonegotiate
end
set interface eth1-02 link-speed 1000M/full
set interface eth1-02 state on
set interface eth1-02 auto-negotiation off
Do you know if there is some known incompatibility between the new quantum firewall and old cisco modules ?
Thank you.
To clarify what brand / SKU of SFP is populated in the ports, does HCP complain about them?
Also per sk92755 not all of them support multirate capabilities.
Hi, Thanks for your answer. HCP doesn't complain about the SFP on both member of the cluster:
| System/Hardware/Transceivers Support
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| Result: SUCCESS
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| Description: This test checks that all installed transceivers are supported
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| Summary:All transceivers are approved
Great the remaining aspect is the speed / multirate issue and if the SFP supports it (refer sk92755).
If you do ifconfig and show interfaces from clish, does it show as up in both places?
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