Known Hardware Issue: EMS RJ45 Ethernet Speed and Activity LEDs Are Dim (16340264)

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The LEDs on the EMS RJ-45 Ethernet connectors might be too dim to interpret their status.

Workaround: Use the dladm show-phys command from the Oracle Solaris prompt to display the Ethernet port state and speed. For example:

# dladm show-phys
LINK              MEDIA                STATE      SPEED  DUPLEX    DEVICE
net0              Ethernet             up         100    full      ixgbe0
net1              Ethernet             down       0      unknown   ixgbe1

Use this table to translate the STATE values displayed by the dladm show-phys command to activity LED state.

STATE Value	Activity LED State	Comment
up	Blinking	Link is up and data is being transferred.
up	On	Link is up.
down	Off	Link is down or no link at all.

Use this table to translate the SPEED values displayed by the dladm show-phys command to speed LED color.

SPEED Value	Speed LED Color	Comment
10000	Amber	10 Gigabit Ethernet
1000	Green	1 Gigabit Ethernet
100	Off	100BASE-T