PA-5400 series QSFP ports powered down without logs
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Created On 01/17/23 14:48 PM - Last Modified 02/06/25 22:29 PM
Symptom
- PA-5450 interfaces 1/25 and 1/226 are getting powered down without logs.
- These are the two 40/100 Gbps QSFP+/QSFP28 ports
- These ports support breakout cables
- When breakout cables are used, the following combination ports are as below and the breakout ports can be either 10 or 25 Gbps
Environment
- PA-5450 and PA-5400 series
- Breakout Ports
Cause
When breakout cable is used, the parent port is shown down.
Resolution
- When the child port is configured, through breakout, the parent port is not available for configuration.
- When using breakout ports on the PA-5400 series, only child ports or the parent ports are configurable but not both. Example: If port 25 is configured, then one cannot configure ports 5 - 8.
- When the breakout cable is used, brdagent process will configure the child ports in groups depending on the interfaces, i.e QSFP28 or QSFP+.
- Following are the ports on 5450
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- Ports 1 - 4: Four 1/10 Gbps ports
- Ports 25 - 26: Two 40/100 Gbps QSFP+/QSFP28 ports
- Ports 13 to 24: Twelve 1/10 Gbps SFP/SFP+ ports
Additional Information
The architecture of the PA-5400 series is similar to the PA-7000 series when it comes to parent-child port configuration.