Description

On an ACX7509 equipped with a JNP‑FPC‑16C line card in Slot 1, two active 100G interfaces (et‑1/0/0 and et‑1/0/1) experienced a loss of all IP connectivity while the physical link state remained up. The disruption was caused by a hardware port‑group behavior associated with PR1898908, where a down port within the same port group can trigger a PHY reset during events such as RE failover or picd recovery. This reset impacts all ports in the group, including operational interfaces. A manual FPC restart restored connectivity.



Symptoms

Interfaces et‑1/0/0 and et‑1/0/1 stayed up/up but had no IP reachability

No ping on P2P link

ISIS adjacency down

RSVP sessions down

LDP neighbors down

MPLS forwarding impacted

Services restored only after manual FPC reboot

Solution

Workarround:


Mark all unused ports on the JNP‑FPC‑16C as unused to prevent down-state ports from causing PHY resets in the shared port group.


Example:


set interfaces et-1/0/2 unused

set interfaces et-1/0/3 unused

set interfaces et-1/0/4 unused


Install the fix reported on PR: https://prsearch.juniper.net/problemreport/PR1854658

Modification History

2026-02-18 : Article Created