Problem: Cisco ASR router is loosing connectivity to its directly attached Ethernet neighbors. In this situation interface status is still up, packets are going in and out on both ends, even IPv6 was still working. The actual problem was that the Cisco ASR was ignoring all ARP responses from its neighbors and the ARP table to this interface was empty. Later the same happened on a second interface.
A temporary work around was to reboot the router.
Solution: Cisco support suggested a software upgrade, even though the software was only some weeks old. After the software upgrade the error didn’t happen again until now.
The old IOS version was: asr1001x-universalk9.03.16.03.S.155-3.S3-ext.SPA.bin
The new IOS version is: asr1001x-universalk9.03.16.04a.S.155-3.S4a-ext.SPA.bin
The only fix that possibly fits to the problem is:
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160804-wedge
“A remote attacker can cause an interface wedge and an eventual denial of service condition”
What’s an “interface wedge”. Cisco bug reports were more precise years ago.