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Network ports are showing as degraded after fix for 1586158

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Applies to

  • Data network ports
  • ifgrps 
  • SFPs

Issue

  • Output for ::> network port show -health reports the status "degraded" due to "l2_reachability". Example:

::> network port show -health -node *
                                   Ignore
                          Health   Health
Node       Port      Link Status   Status Degraded Reasons
--------   --------- ---- -------- ------ -----------------------
node_name-01
           a0a       up   degraded false  l2_reachability
           ...
           e2a       up   degraded false  l2_reachability
           e2b       up   degraded false  l2_reachability
           e2c       up   degraded false  l2_reachability
           e2c-200   up   degraded false  l2_reachability
           e2d       up   degraded false  l2_reachability
node_name-02
           a0a       up   degraded false  l2_reachability
           ...
           e2a       up   degraded false  l2_reachability
           e2b       up   degraded false  l2_reachability
           e2c       up   degraded false  l2_reachability
           e2c-200   up   degraded false  l2_reachability
           e2d       up   degraded false  l2_reachability
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  • Some ports in data switch side go into suspended mode when adding ports to an existing LACP ifgrp port channel.
  • Some ports in NetApp system are showing as degraded even when not added to an ifgrp.
  • The Native VLAN ports show degraded after upgrade to ONTAP 9.13.1 resolves the error for some of the ports
  • Other ports still show "degraded"

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