PA-800 Firewall Overview
PA-800 Front Panel
The following image shows the front panel of the PA-800 Series firewall and the table describes
each front panel component. The only differences between the PA-820 (shown) and PA-850 front
panel is the model name and the Ethernet port speeds as described in the table.
Item
Component
Descripon
1
Ethernet ports 1 through 4
Four RJ-45 10/100/1000Mbps ports for network
traffic.
You can set the link speed and duplex or choose
auto-negoate.
2
SFP ports 5 through 8
Four small form-factor pluggable (SFP) ports for
network traffic.
3
SFP/SFP+ ports 9 through
12
These ports are for network traffic and their speed
varies depending on your firewall and configuraon.
PA-820 Firewalls
Four 1Gbps SFP ports; you cannot reconfigure these
ports.
PA-850 Firewalls
Four 1Gbps SFP ports or four 10Gbps SFP+ ports
(default); you can specify which you want to use but
you cannot mix the two.
You can install up to 4 of the same type transceivers
(SFP or SFP+) as needed but if you install SFP
transceivers, then you also need to reconfigure ports
9 through 12 (as a group) to SFP using the command
line interface (CLI).
To confirm the current sengs for these four ports,
run the following command:
admin@PA-850>
show system setting por
ts-9-12-speed
Device Ports 9-12 mode:
sfp+
The output shows that the ports are set to SFP
+. If the firewall is not already set to the correct
port type for your transceivers, use the set system
seng ports-9-12-speed command. For example,
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