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GS724Tv4 all connected activity leds flashing constantly
I just replaced my recenlty deseased second hand GS724v2 for a GS724tv4 and i am bit overwhelmed with all the new settings and options. The first thing I did after unboxing the switch was updating t...
I think I got it figured now.
I hadn't set PVIDs for the corresponding VLANs, all interfaces had PVID 1.
Now interface 1-5 have PVID 4, and Interface 6-24 have PVID 5.
And now the activity leds have stopped flashing for non active ports.
Is this the correct way to do this? And should the default VLAN be left as it is
Luckily I didn't change the PVID of all the intefaces at once because the switch became unreachable when I changed the the PVID on the interface I was connected to. But after changing the Management VLAN ID number I got it working again. I there to not have a speciffic Management VLAN ID so it's possible to manage the switch using any VLAN IDs?
Hi No_Jah，
Welcome to Netgear Community！
I think there may be some protocal messages in your network so that enven no activity ports still flashing .
can you help to do the following steps to make sure.
1.select a port on switch and make sure there no activity on this port.
2. observe the led
3. If it flashing ，check port statistics via “monitoring>ports>port statistics”.(clear fistly ,waiting about 10 seconds then check it again )
4. If the statistics is only thousands of， I think it normal ，just keep eye on it to make sure it would not effect your network.
5. If there huge munber of statistics，please feed back ，we need to find where these traffic from.
Best Regards
Carl
Netgear Employee
I think I got it figured now.
I hadn't set PVIDs for the corresponding VLANs, all interfaces had PVID 1.
Now interface 1-5 have PVID 4, and Interface 6-24 have PVID 5.
And now the activity leds have stopped flashing for non active ports.
Is this the correct way to do this? And should the default VLAN be left as it is
Luckily I didn't change the PVID of all the intefaces at once because the switch became unreachable when I changed the the PVID on the interface I was connected to. But after changing the Management VLAN ID number I got it working again. I there to not have a speciffic Management VLAN ID so it's possible to manage the switch using any VLAN IDs?
Hi No_Jah ,
Gland to here you out of trouble,congratulations~
It is correct to set interface 1-5 have PVID 4, and Interface 6-24 have PVID 5.
You can define management vlan，and can only access to switch from a interface which belong to it and pvid is the management vlan id.
Regards
Carl
Ok, so no way to access the management from multiple PVIDs then?
I'm also a bit confused about the default VLA/LAG configuration
The default VLAN called default includes all 26 ports untagged, and it also includes 26 untagged LAGs?
And when you look at the default LAG configuration ther are 26 LAG called ch1-ch26, what are they ment for?
Hi No_Jah
No you won't be able to access Switch Management CPU (web interface on Smart Managed switches) from other VLANs, you will access it only from the Management VLAN. This is the whole point of Management VLAN.
You say Multiple PVIDs, well this is extra information. There can be only one PVID per port (the untag traffic coming from VLAN-unaware device), that will be tagged into the corresponding PVID VLAN by the port. If you are on a PC without VLAN configured o on it, so VLAN-unaware, then yes you will be able to access Switch Management interface only from a port with PVID = Management VLAN.
On NETGEAR switches, factory default configuration is:
- VLAN 1 = Management VLAN in VLAN database
- All ports PVID set to VLAN 1
Yes, all LAGs are by default set to PVID = VLAN 1 as well.
For your question about the 26 LAGs called ch1-ch26: the Ling Aggregation Groups are provisionned in the system already. You can configure 26 different LAGs on this given switch, the first one is called ch1, the second one ch2 etc.. No physical ports are assigned to these LAGs yet, they are all empty, ready to use. If you need to form a LAG, select the first one ch1 for instance, and start configure it per your needs for link aggregation and/or uplinks.
Let us know if it helps!
Regards,
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