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DATA lifs become unreachable after lif node failover due to unreachable broadcast-domains

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • Network
  • Vlan
  • Switch

Issue

  • After failover, LIFs migrated to surviving node and the corresponding vlan tagged port/interface LIFs are unable to communicate and broadcast domain is reported as "unreachable"
::>network port reachability show -instance -port <port_name>
     Node: <node_name>
     Reachability Status: no-reachability
  • EMS messages for broadcast domains not reachable will be seen.  Example messages:

[NODE02: vifmgr: vifmgr.reach.noreach:notice]: Network port a0a-40 on node NODE02 cannot reach its expected broadcast domain <broadcast_domain name>. No other broadcast domains appear to be reachable from this port.
[NODE02: vifmgr: vifmgr.reach.noreach:notice]: Network port a0a-41 on node NODE02 cannot reach its expected broadcast domain <broadcast_domain name>. No other broadcast domains appear to be reachable from this port.
[NODE02: vifmgr: vifmgr.reach.noreach:notice]: Network port a0a-43 on node NODE02 cannot reach its expected broadcast domain <broadcast_domain name>. No other broadcast domains appear to be reachable from this port.

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