Introduction
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Infoblox Installation Guide
Ethernet Port LEDs
To see the link activity and connection speed of an Ethernet port, you can look at its Link/Act and Speed LEDs.
Figure 3
shows the status the LEDs convey through their color and illumination (steady glow or blinking).
Figure 3
LEDs
Connector Pin Assignments
An Infoblox appliance has three types of ports on its front panel:
•
USB port (reserved for future use)
•
Male DB-9 console port
•
RJ-45 10Base-T/100Base-T/1000Base-T auto-sensing gigabit Ethernet ports
The DB-9 and RJ-45 connector pin assignments are described in
Figure 4
. The DB-9 pin assignments follow the
EIA232 standard. To make a serial connection from your management system to the console port, you can use the
RJ-45 rollover cable and two female RJ-45-to-female DB-9 adapters that ship with the appliance, or a female DB-9-to-
female DB-9 null modem cable. The RJ-45 pin assignments follow IEEE 802.3 specifications. All Infoblox Ethernet
ports are auto-sensing and automatically adjust to standard straight-through and cross-over ethernet cables.
10Base-T Ethernet and 100Base-T fast Ethernet use the same two pairs of wires. The twisted pair of wires
connecting to pins 1 and 2 transmit data, and the twisted pair connecting to pins 3 and 6 receive data. For
1000Base-T connections, all four twisted-pair wires are used for bidirectional traffic.
Label
Color
Port Status
Link/
Act
Steady Green
Link is up but inactive
Blinking Green
Link is up and active
Off
Link is down
Speed
Steady Amber
1000 Mbps
Steady Green
100 Mbps
Off
10 Mbps
Speed
Link/Act
Speed
Link/Act
Speed
Link/Act
Speed
Link/Act
MGMT
LAN1
HA
LAN2
