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M4300: "no autostate" leads to Slot Status "Empty"?!
Hello Netgear community! Any help regarding this strange issue is greatly appreciated! If we add "no autostate" to an VLAN interface to keep it up regardless of physical links, everything behaves like it should. But after rebooting with this desired config, no single regular port of the switch can establish a physical link anymore and can only be accessed by the OOB-Ports. Best of it: the "Slot Status" of the (fixed) switch card shows "Empty": Here the minimal config to reproduce the behaviour: !Current Configuration: ! !System Description "M4300-52G ProSAFE 48-port 1G and 2-port 10GBASE-T and 2-port 10G SFP+, 12.0.2.17, 1.0.0.8" !System Software Version "12.0.2.17" !System Up Time "0 days 0 hrs 7 mins 3 secs" !Additional Packages QOS,Multicast,IPv6,IPv6 Management,Stacking,Routing !Current SNTP Synchronized Time: SNTP Last Attempt Status Is Not Successful ! vlan database vlan 100 vlan name 100 "Test" vlan routing 1 1 vlan routing 100 2 exit configure stack member 1 3 exit switch 1 priority 1 slot 1/0 3 set slot power 1/0 no set slot disable 1/0 line console exit line telnet exit line ssh exit ! interface vlan 1 routing ip address dhcp exit interface vlan 100 routing ip address 192.168.2.1 255.255.255.0 no autostate exit router rip exit router ospf exit ipv6 router ospf exit exit If we remove the "no autostate" by setting just "autostate" after the reboot the Ethernet-links work normal. (another interesting point is, that the CLI Reference states "By default, AutoState is disabled, which means that a VLAN routing interface could remain up even if the link is down." which ist according to "show running config" not the case) And also the switch card ist detected, like one would expect: Can anybody explain what is going on here?? For me, it looks like a bug, but I have not too much experience with these switches. Thank you for your inputs, GH
