Applies to ONTAP 9 Intel Network Interface Card Port show link down status ifconfig -a show port is "<UP" Issue No any error for NIC port. Only Tx side Queue overflow and Total discards counters incre...Applies to ONTAP 9 Intel Network Interface Card Port show link down status ifconfig -a show port is "<UP" Issue No any error for NIC port. Only Tx side Queue overflow and Total discards counters increased. Example: IFSTAT -A: -- interface e1b (XX days, XX hours, XX minutes, X second) -- RECEIVE TRANSMIT Total frames: 0 | Frames/second: 0 | Total bytes: 0 Bytes/second: 0 | Total errors: 0 | Errors/minute: 0 Total discards: 143k | Queue overflow: 143k | Multi/broadcast: 0