Xserve ethernet ports shows connected though no physical connection

Hi all...
We have a very strange issue in the 3 latest xserves (with Nehalem processors)that is purchsed couple of days back. The issue is, in the Network, System preference, both the ethernet ports shows green and displays as "Connected" even though there is no physical connectivity. This active state of the eth ports is visible only in the network system preference and the port state shows as inactive if we check through CLI and the server monitor. Both the ports functions normally except for these wrong info in the system preference.
Have anyone faced any issue with the latest Nehalem processor Xserves or is this be a bug in the OS X. The installed OS version is 10.5.7 and the firmware is up to date.
Please help !!
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Call Apple Support for assistance; this looks to be a nasty error with multiple new Xserve boxes and given these are likely covered under their initial warranty, which implies there's something seriously weird with 10.5.6 or 10.5.7, or with the Xserve early 2009 boxes, or firmware, or with what the configuration tools allow.
It appears that [threadID=2021235|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2021235] and [threadID=2021817|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2021817&tst art=0] are the same case?

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