As you can read in my previous articles (here, here and here) having a physical issue on any of you FC links is detrimental to your entire FC infrastructure. Not only does it corrupt frames and primitives but is also resulting in traffic flow issues which may even propagate to other fabrics which even have a so called air-gap. (See here)
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Port stuck in L-port mode
So now and then you run into this issue where, no matter which configuration you try, a switch port always shows:
86 10 6 3a5600 id N8 Online FC L-Port 1 public
Even though all settings seem to be OK, fillwords are correct, HBA or array settings are the same as others, no port-errors are seen from a switch perspective but this port will not come up as an F-port.