Increasing Fragment errors on an ethernet port
Applies to
ONTAP 9
Issue
- ONTAP reports the following message in event logs:
Thu Jul 08 00:17:37 PDT [node1: vifmgr: vifmgr.cluscheck.crcerrors:alert]: Port e0M on node node1 is reporting a high number of observed hardware errors, possibly CRC errors.
- Ifstat output shows the Fragment error counters increasing.
cluster1::> system node run node1 -command ifstat e0M
-- interface e0M (17 hours, 44 minutes, 20 seconds) --
RECEIVE
Total frames: 86428 | Frames/second: 1 | Total bytes: 6852k
Bytes/second: 107 | Total errors: 1847 | Errors/minute: 2
Total discards: 0 | Discards/minute: 0 | Multi/broadcast: 65563
Non-primary u/c: 0 | CRC errors: 0 | Runt frames: 0
Fragment: 1847 | Long frames: 0 | Jabber: 0