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Ports on Cisco routers can be enabled or disabled by the router OS. "Administratively Up" simply means that the port has been enabled by the router's OS. If a port is enabled (Administratively Up) and the protocol is down, then there is a problem with communications over that port. Problems could one of many including; bad cable on the port, the far end device is down, the protocol configurations on the two connected device ports are not configured correctly to enable communications.

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