Cluster network degraded due to incompatible switch
Applies to
- ONTAP 9
 - FAS
 - Cluster Network Switch
 
Issue
- CRC errors on cluster port in 
ifconfig: 
-- interface  e0b  (232 days, 2 hours, 21 minutes, 3 seconds) --
RECEIVE
Total frames:      252m | Frames/second:      13  | Total bytes:     39644m
Bytes/second:     1977  | Total errors:     1218  | Errors/minute:       0
Total discards:      0  | Discards/minute:     0  | Multi/broadcast:  1020k
Non-primary u/c:     0  |CRCerrors:       1212| Runt frames:         0
Fragment:            0  | Long frames:         0  | Jabber:              3
Length errors:       3  | No buffer:           0  | Xon:                 0
Xoff:                0  | Pause:               0  | Jumbo:            1293k
Noproto:             0  | Error symbol:      236  | Illegal symbol:    199
Bus overruns:        0  | Queue drops:         0  | LRO segments:      249m
LRO bytes:       26713m
| LRO6 segments:       0  | LRO6 bytes:          0
Bad UDP cksum:       0  | Bad UDP6 cksum:      0  | Bad TCP cksum:       0
Bad TCP6 cksum:      0  | Mcast v6 solicit:    0
TRANSMIT
Total frames:      561m | Frames/second:      28  | Total bytes: 139g
Bytes/second:     6980  | Total errors:        0  | Errors/minute:       0
Total discards:      0  | Queue overflow:      0  | Multi/broadcast:  1031k
Xon:                 0  | Xoff:                0  | Pause:               0
Jumbo:            2565k | Cfg Up to Downs:     2  | TSO non-TCP drop:    0
Split hdr drop:      0  | Timeout:             0  | TSO segments:      402k
TSO bytes:        4840m | TSO6 segments:       0  | TSO6 bytes:          0
HW UDP cksums:     154k | HW UDP6 cksums:      0  | HW TCP cksums:     556m
HW TCP6 cksums:      0  | Mcast v6 solicit:    0
DEVICE
Mcast addresses:     3  | Rx MBuf Sz:       4096
LINK INFO
Speed:           10000M | Duplex:            full | Flowcontrol:       none
Media state:     activ
e | Up to downs: 8
- EMS error:
 
Tue Dec 01 04:04:26 JST [Cluster-01: intr: netif.linkErrors:error]: Excessive link errors on network interface e0b. Might indicate a bad cable, switch port, or NIC, or that a cable connector is not fully inserted in a socket. On a 10/100 port, might indicate a duplex mismatch.
Sun Jan 22 00:27:18 +0100 [Cluster-01: vifmgr: vifmgr.cluscheck.ctdpktloss:alert]: Continued packet loss when pinging from cluster lif Cluster_clus2 (node Node02) to cluster lif Cluster-01_clus1 ( node Node01).
