Data access is affected due to duplicate IP address
Applies to
- ONTAP 9
- CIFS
- NFS
- iSCSI
Issue
- CIFS clients cannot access share.
- NFS client fails to mount a volume.
- iSCSI host experiences disconnect to storage.
- Periodically the SMB Connections are disconnected and not reconnected.
- CIFS and NFS requests are not actually reaching to ONTAP but going to the other device having same IP address.
- Vscan server disconnected and
vscan connection-status show-not-connected
shows-
(hyphen instead of reason) - Management access to the cluster may be affected.
- Duplicate IP address error messages can usually be seen in the event logs.
Fri Oct 16 13:31:11 CEST [Node-01: NwkThd_00: netinet.ethr.duplct.ipAdrr:error]: Duplicate IP address 10.10.10.50!! sent from Ethernet address: 02:a0:98:xx:xx:xx.