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New 1930 switch running v1.0.4, replacing Catalyst 3750. Duplicated all vlan assignments. Moved cables 1-for-1 (ie. from Cat fas1/0/2 to 1930 e2). No loops. At first all port LED's flutter with initial activity when connected (dhcp, arp). After a few seconds the port LED's begins a cyclical half-second on, half-second off pattern. All ports in the same vlan do this. I cannot find an LED pattern defining this blink pattern. The LED's don't flutter as traffic changes. It's like a the LED's are on an on/off timer. Traffic seems unaffected.

Here's what I see. Ports 4 & 8 are in different VLANs from the rest.


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JASON YOUNG
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Hi Folks,

We agree here in the lab, the LAN activity LED pattern isn't correct. We are debugging the issue with chip MFG and ODM. Seems there could be synchronization issue between two HW components that control LED behavior. There is an open case with Aruba Support Engineering. We will provide updates to the submitter through the support team and will get back on this thread once the problem is understood.

Thank you for reporting your observations and submitting a case with our support team.

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Ben E Seligson
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-29-2021 04:11 PM
From: JASON YOUNG
Subject: Port LED's blinking in unison for all interafces within same Vlan

New 1930 switch running v1.0.4, replacing Catalyst 3750. Duplicated all vlan assignments. Moved cables 1-for-1 (ie. from Cat fas1/0/2 to 1930 e2). No loops. At first all port LED's flutter with initial activity when connected (dhcp, arp). After a few seconds the port LED's begins a cyclical half-second on, half-second off pattern. All ports in the same vlan do this. I cannot find an LED pattern defining this blink pattern. The LED's don't flutter as traffic changes. It's like a the LED's are on an on/off timer. Traffic seems unaffected.

Here's what I see. Ports 2 & 4 are in different VLANs from the rest.

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JASON YOUNG
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Original Message:
Sent: 5/13/2021 5:11:00 PM
From: BS21
Subject: RE: Port LED's blinking in unison for all interafces within same Vlan

Hi Folks,

We agree here in the lab, the LAN activity LED pattern isn't correct. We are debugging the issue with chip MFG and ODM. Seems there could be synchronization issue between two HW components that control LED behavior. There is an open case with Aruba Support Engineering. We will provide updates to the submitter through the support team and will get back on this thread once the problem is understood.

Thank you for reporting your observations and submitting a case with our support team.

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Ben E Seligson
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-29-2021 04:11 PM
From: JASON YOUNG
Subject: Port LED's blinking in unison for all interafces within same Vlan

New 1930 switch running v1.0.4, replacing Catalyst 3750. Duplicated all vlan assignments. Moved cables 1-for-1 (ie. from Cat fas1/0/2 to 1930 e2). No loops. At first all port LED's flutter with initial activity when connected (dhcp, arp). After a few seconds the port LED's begins a cyclical half-second on, half-second off pattern. All ports in the same vlan do this. I cannot find an LED pattern defining this blink pattern. The LED's don't flutter as traffic changes. It's like a the LED's are on an on/off timer. Traffic seems unaffected.

Here's what I see. Ports 2 & 4 are in different VLANs from the rest.

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JASON YOUNG
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Hi Ben,

Just to let you know that I've got the same issue.

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Walther Lalk
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-13-2021 05:11 PM
From: Ben E Seligson
Subject: Port LED's blinking in unison for all interafces within same Vlan

Hi Folks,

We agree here in the lab, the LAN activity LED pattern isn't correct. We are debugging the issue with chip MFG and ODM. Seems there could be synchronization issue between two HW components that control LED behavior. There is an open case with Aruba Support Engineering. We will provide updates to the submitter through the support team and will get back on this thread once the problem is understood.

Thank you for reporting your observations and submitting a case with our support team.

------------------------------
Ben E Seligson

Original Message:
Sent: 04-29-2021 04:11 PM
From: JASON YOUNG
Subject: Port LED's blinking in unison for all interafces within same Vlan

New 1930 switch running v1.0.4, replacing Catalyst 3750. Duplicated all vlan assignments. Moved cables 1-for-1 (ie. from Cat fas1/0/2 to 1930 e2). No loops. At first all port LED's flutter with initial activity when connected (dhcp, arp). After a few seconds the port LED's begins a cyclical half-second on, half-second off pattern. All ports in the same vlan do this. I cannot find an LED pattern defining this blink pattern. The LED's don't flutter as traffic changes. It's like a the LED's are on an on/off timer. Traffic seems unaffected.

Here's what I see. Ports 2 & 4 are in different VLANs from the rest.

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JASON YOUNG
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Yes every 1930 does this that I have installed. I will be calling support because it's horrible. Switch works fine, but the blink pattern is beyond annoying.

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Jason Stevens
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-29-2021 04:11 PM
From: JASON YOUNG
Subject: Port LED's blinking in unison for all interafces within same Vlan

New 1930 switch running v1.0.4, replacing Catalyst 3750. Duplicated all vlan assignments. Moved cables 1-for-1 (ie. from Cat fas1/0/2 to 1930 e2). No loops. At first all port LED's flutter with initial activity when connected (dhcp, arp). After a few seconds the port LED's begins a cyclical half-second on, half-second off pattern. All ports in the same vlan do this. I cannot find an LED pattern defining this blink pattern. The LED's don't flutter as traffic changes. It's like a the LED's are on an on/off timer. Traffic seems unaffected.

Here's what I see. Ports 2 & 4 are in different VLANs from the rest.

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JASON YOUNG
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Hi, thank you for your patience. Investigations concluded this week. There was a misinterpretation of the spec across the various labs that has been corrected. We'll provide a patch in the next maintenance release. The release date is TBD but not too far off.

Apologies for the inconvenience.

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben E Seligson
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-29-2021 04:11 PM
From: JASON YOUNG
Subject: Port LED's blinking in unison for all interafces within same Vlan

New 1930 switch running v1.0.4, replacing Catalyst 3750. Duplicated all vlan assignments. Moved cables 1-for-1 (ie. from Cat fas1/0/2 to 1930 e2). No loops. At first all port LED's flutter with initial activity when connected (dhcp, arp). After a few seconds the port LED's begins a cyclical half-second on, half-second off pattern. All ports in the same vlan do this. I cannot find an LED pattern defining this blink pattern. The LED's don't flutter as traffic changes. It's like a the LED's are on an on/off timer. Traffic seems unaffected.

Here's what I see. Ports 2 & 4 are in different VLANs from the rest.

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JASON YOUNG
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Hi Ben, do you have a date for the new firmware? I'm watching this page but nothing new posted - assuming this is the proper page to download from.
Thanks

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JASON YOUNG
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-28-2021 03:18 PM
From: Ben E Seligson
Subject: Port LED's blinking in unison for all interafces within same Vlan

Hi, thank you for your patience. Investigations concluded this week. There was a misinterpretation of the spec across the various labs that has been corrected. We'll provide a patch in the next maintenance release. The release date is TBD but not too far off.

Apologies for the inconvenience.

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben E Seligson

Original Message:
Sent: 04-29-2021 04:11 PM
From: JASON YOUNG
Subject: Port LED's blinking in unison for all interafces within same Vlan

New 1930 switch running v1.0.4, replacing Catalyst 3750. Duplicated all vlan assignments. Moved cables 1-for-1 (ie. from Cat fas1/0/2 to 1930 e2). No loops. At first all port LED's flutter with initial activity when connected (dhcp, arp). After a few seconds the port LED's begins a cyclical half-second on, half-second off pattern. All ports in the same vlan do this. I cannot find an LED pattern defining this blink pattern. The LED's don't flutter as traffic changes. It's like a the LED's are on an on/off timer. Traffic seems unaffected.

Here's what I see. Ports 2 & 4 are in different VLANs from the rest.

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JASON YOUNG
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Th is is happening to many of my switches

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Jeff Cohen
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-29-2021 04:11 PM
From: JASON YOUNG
Subject: Port LED's blinking in unison for all interafces within same Vlan

New 1930 switch running v1.0.4, replacing Catalyst 3750. Duplicated all vlan assignments. Moved cables 1-for-1 (ie. from Cat fas1/0/2 to 1930 e2). No loops. At first all port LED's flutter with initial activity when connected (dhcp, arp). After a few seconds the port LED's begins a cyclical half-second on, half-second off pattern. All ports in the same vlan do this. I cannot find an LED pattern defining this blink pattern. The LED's don't flutter as traffic changes. It's like a the LED's are on an on/off timer. Traffic seems unaffected.

Here's what I see. Ports 4 & 8 are in different VLANs from the rest.

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JASON YOUNG
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Same here.... same as the video posted from Jason..... weird...

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Jean-François Ménard
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Original Message:
Sent: 06-16-2021 08:57 PM
From: Jeff Cohen
Subject: Port LED's blinking in unison for all interafces within same Vlan

Th is is happening to many of my switches

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Jeff Cohen

Original Message:
Sent: 04-29-2021 04:11 PM
From: JASON YOUNG
Subject: Port LED's blinking in unison for all interafces within same Vlan

New 1930 switch running v1.0.4, replacing Catalyst 3750. Duplicated all vlan assignments. Moved cables 1-for-1 (ie. from Cat fas1/0/2 to 1930 e2). No loops. At first all port LED's flutter with initial activity when connected (dhcp, arp). After a few seconds the port LED's begins a cyclical half-second on, half-second off pattern. All ports in the same vlan do this. I cannot find an LED pattern defining this blink pattern. The LED's don't flutter as traffic changes. It's like a the LED's are on an on/off timer. Traffic seems unaffected.

Here's what I see. Ports 4 & 8 are in different VLANs from the rest.

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JASON YOUNG
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Original Message:
Sent: 6/17/2021 12:02:00 PM
From: tekkyguy
Subject: RE: Port LED's blinking in unison for all interafces within same Vlan

Same here.... same as the video posted from Jason..... weird...

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Jean-François Ménard
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Original Message:
Sent: 06-16-2021 08:57 PM
From: Jeff Cohen
Subject: Port LED's blinking in unison for all interafces within same Vlan

Th is is happening to many of my switches

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Jeff Cohen

Original Message:
Sent: 04-29-2021 04:11 PM
From: JASON YOUNG
Subject: Port LED's blinking in unison for all interafces within same Vlan

New 1930 switch running v1.0.4, replacing Catalyst 3750. Duplicated all vlan assignments. Moved cables 1-for-1 (ie. from Cat fas1/0/2 to 1930 e2). No loops. At first all port LED's flutter with initial activity when connected (dhcp, arp). After a few seconds the port LED's begins a cyclical half-second on, half-second off pattern. All ports in the same vlan do this. I cannot find an LED pattern defining this blink pattern. The LED's don't flutter as traffic changes. It's like a the LED's are on an on/off timer. Traffic seems unaffected.

Here's what I see. Ports 4 & 8 are in different VLANs from the rest.

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JASON YOUNG
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yep, we applied the firmware to a test switch to see if it was just an un-documented change but unfortunately not!

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Adam Postgate
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-29-2021 04:11 PM
From: JASON YOUNG
Subject: Port LED's blinking in unison for all interafces within same Vlan

New 1930 switch running v1.0.4, replacing Catalyst 3750. Duplicated all vlan assignments. Moved cables 1-for-1 (ie. from Cat fas1/0/2 to 1930 e2). No loops. At first all port LED's flutter with initial activity when connected (dhcp, arp). After a few seconds the port LED's begins a cyclical half-second on, half-second off pattern. All ports in the same vlan do this. I cannot find an LED pattern defining this blink pattern. The LED's don't flutter as traffic changes. It's like a the LED's are on an on/off timer. Traffic seems unaffected.

Here's what I see. Ports 4 & 8 are in different VLANs from the rest.

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JASON YOUNG
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My experience with this undocumented flashing has been when there is some sort of block.  It was to the point of it blocking all VLANs, not just the VLAN the affected port(s) was in.  After much trial and error with STP the problem seems to be remedied.  You might try changing from STP to RSTP, using BPDU Guard, and disabling STP on any ports that do not connect to other network infrastructure.  Also, highly suggest against using Aruba's built-in Loop Protection!
Hope this helps and they release whatever the fix for the odd flashing soon.

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John Whitmarsh
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-29-2021 04:11 PM
From: JASON YOUNG
Subject: Port LED's blinking in unison for all interafces within same Vlan

New 1930 switch running v1.0.4, replacing Catalyst 3750. Duplicated all vlan assignments. Moved cables 1-for-1 (ie. from Cat fas1/0/2 to 1930 e2). No loops. At first all port LED's flutter with initial activity when connected (dhcp, arp). After a few seconds the port LED's begins a cyclical half-second on, half-second off pattern. All ports in the same vlan do this. I cannot find an LED pattern defining this blink pattern. The LED's don't flutter as traffic changes. It's like a the LED's are on an on/off timer. Traffic seems unaffected.

Here's what I see. Ports 4 & 8 are in different VLANs from the rest.

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JASON YOUNG
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Unfortunately my switch still flashes like a Christmas tree :(

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Walther Lalk
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Original Message:
Sent: 06-30-2021 09:25 AM
From: John Whitmarsh
Subject: Port LED's blinking in unison for all interafces within same Vlan

My experience with this undocumented flashing has been when there is some sort of block.  It was to the point of it blocking all VLANs, not just the VLAN the affected port(s) was in.  After much trial and error with STP the problem seems to be remedied.  You might try changing from STP to RSTP, using BPDU Guard, and disabling STP on any ports that do not connect to other network infrastructure.  Also, highly suggest against using Aruba's built-in Loop Protection!
Hope this helps and they release whatever the fix for the odd flashing soon.

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John Whitmarsh

Original Message:
Sent: 04-29-2021 04:11 PM
From: JASON YOUNG
Subject: Port LED's blinking in unison for all interafces within same Vlan

New 1930 switch running v1.0.4, replacing Catalyst 3750. Duplicated all vlan assignments. Moved cables 1-for-1 (ie. from Cat fas1/0/2 to 1930 e2). No loops. At first all port LED's flutter with initial activity when connected (dhcp, arp). After a few seconds the port LED's begins a cyclical half-second on, half-second off pattern. All ports in the same vlan do this. I cannot find an LED pattern defining this blink pattern. The LED's don't flutter as traffic changes. It's like a the LED's are on an on/off timer. Traffic seems unaffected.

Here's what I see. Ports 4 & 8 are in different VLANs from the rest.

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JASON YOUNG
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I fixed this issue loooong ago. I installed the switch in a 6U cabinet with an opaque door :-D

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Valentin Voica
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Original Message:
Sent: 07-30-2021 08:27 AM
From: Walther Lalk
Subject: Port LED's blinking in unison for all interafces within same Vlan

Unfortunately my switch still flashes like a Christmas tree :(

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Walther Lalk

Original Message:
Sent: 06-30-2021 09:25 AM
From: John Whitmarsh
Subject: Port LED's blinking in unison for all interafces within same Vlan

My experience with this undocumented flashing has been when there is some sort of block.  It was to the point of it blocking all VLANs, not just the VLAN the affected port(s) was in.  After much trial and error with STP the problem seems to be remedied.  You might try changing from STP to RSTP, using BPDU Guard, and disabling STP on any ports that do not connect to other network infrastructure.  Also, highly suggest against using Aruba's built-in Loop Protection!
Hope this helps and they release whatever the fix for the odd flashing soon.

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John Whitmarsh

Original Message:
Sent: 04-29-2021 04:11 PM
From: JASON YOUNG
Subject: Port LED's blinking in unison for all interafces within same Vlan

New 1930 switch running v1.0.4, replacing Catalyst 3750. Duplicated all vlan assignments. Moved cables 1-for-1 (ie. from Cat fas1/0/2 to 1930 e2). No loops. At first all port LED's flutter with initial activity when connected (dhcp, arp). After a few seconds the port LED's begins a cyclical half-second on, half-second off pattern. All ports in the same vlan do this. I cannot find an LED pattern defining this blink pattern. The LED's don't flutter as traffic changes. It's like a the LED's are on an on/off timer. Traffic seems unaffected.

Here's what I see. Ports 4 & 8 are in different VLANs from the rest.

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JASON YOUNG
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