Description

This article addresses a connectivity issue between Juniper EX4650 and EX2300 switches where the link remains down due to auto-negotiation incompatibility when using 1-gigabit fiber SFP transceivers on the EX4650.

Symptoms

 

>Port ge-0/0/36 on EX4650 is up, but the remote port ge-0/1/0 on EX2300 remains down.

 

 

>Auto-negotiation is enabled on the EX2300 interface.

>Auto-negotiation is not listed in the extensive interface output for the EX4650

 

 

Solution

 

As per Juniper documentation: https://www.juniper.net/documentation/us/en/hardware/ex4650/topics/topic-map/ex4650-hardware-overview.html

 

"EX4650-48Y does not support autonegotiation when 1-gigabit fiber SFP transceiver is plugged in. In such cases, it is recommended to disable auto-negotiation on the remote end device"

 

To resolve this, auto-negotiation must be disabled on the remote end device (EX2300).

 

Configuration to apply on EX2300 ge-0/1/0

set interfaces ge-0/1/0 speed 1g
set interfaces ge-0/1/0 link-mode full-duplex
set interfaces ge-0/1/0 ether-options no-auto-negotiation

 

- In the following image, interface ge-0/1/0 is up because Auto-negotiation is Disabled

 

 

 

 

Modification History

2026-07-23 : Article Created