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Switch: Amber Light

Hello Experts,

I have a port on one of my Catalyst switch that is amber in color.  This port is also an uplink port.  Actually, their are two ports that are uplink and one of them has the amber light.  Does this mean that one of the ports are bad or is it just in stand by?


As always, thank you!
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On cisco switches it is very likely that the port was put into blocked state by the spanning-tree protocol to prevent loops. As you have more than one uplink it is almost certain.
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Kirschi,

If that is the case, can it be unblock?  What possible reason as to why the switch would block a port?  
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