Technical Tip: Ports on the LCD not displaying

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Article Id 196259

Article

Description

LCD displays do not show complete list of available ports.

Components

FortiGate-300A
FortiGate-400
FortiOS 3.0

Steps or Commands

The LCD panel on the FortiGate-300A and FortiGate-400 do not display the complete ports on the LCD screen. The LCD panel displays:

PORT1 Interface
PORT2 Interface
PORT5 Interface
PORT6 Interface
Restore Defaults
To Bridge Mode
Console

Note that the Port3 and Port4 are not included in the list. You can still configure port 3 and port 4 using the web-based manager and the CLI.

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