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Does ONTAP support 31-bit subnet masks for IPv4 point-to-point links?

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Applies to

ONTAP 9

Answer

  • ONTAP supports 31-bit subnet masks (/31)
  • Only the second IP in the point-to-point range can be assigned to an interface in ONTAP
  • TCP traffic to LIF's with a 31-bit subnet mask will not work until ONTAP 9.8
    • ONTAP 9.8 introduces a fix for Bug 1326644 which will allow TCP traffic

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Example

  • Desired point-to-point subnet is 192.168.1.0/31
  • ONTAP can be assigned 192.168.1.1
  • ONTAP cannot be assigned 192.168.1.0
    • Assignment will fail out with Error: command failed: Netmask and address pair result in a network address
  • ​​​​​​​Below the first command fails, but the second command succeeds as stated above
cluster1::> network interface create -vserver svm1 -lif p2p -address 192.168.1.0 -netmask 255.255.255.254  

Error: command failed: Netmask and address pair result in a network address 

cluster1::> network interface create -vserver svm1 -lif p2p -address 192.168.1.1 -netmask 255.255.255.254 
cluster::>

 

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