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Re: QoS/CoS in the real world?

  • From: Art Houle
  • Date: Mon Jul 15 10:00:47 2002

On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Peter John Hill wrote:
> --On Sunday, July 14, 2002 9:26 PM -0400 Art Houle 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> 
> >> On Sun, 14 Jul 2002 21:13:13 -0400 (EDT)
> >>  Art Houle <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Or, to put it another way, how are the packets marked ? And why not just
> >> drop them then and there, instead of later ?
> 
> > If we are not using our WAN connections to capacity, then p2p traffic can
> > expand and fill the pipe, but if business packets are filling the pipes,
> > then the p2p stuff is throttled back. This makes 100% use of an expensive
> > resource.
> 
> So, you are doing straight tcp port filtering. Are there any clients that 
> use dynamic ports? Things will get trickier for you. Other than Packetteer, 
> are there any other products that can look into the data of a packet at any 
> usable rate to do filtering/marking?
> 

We look at ports mostly to mark the packets, but we are also using cisco
'pdlm' to discover the p2p stuff.  We are not doing port filtering to drop
packets, WFQ is doing the drop function.


policy-map cbwfq2ISPonPVC
  class class-default
    random-detect dscp-based
    random-detect dscp 0 5 10 8
    random-detect dscp 8 15 22 16
    random-detect dscp 16 20 30 32
    random-detect dscp 24 30 45 64
    random-detect dscp 48 40 60 128
    random-detect dscp 56 50 75 256
    fair-queue
    fair-queue queue-limit 24
    queue-limit 72

vc-class atm Sprint-ISP
  ubr 45000
  encapsulation aal5snap

interface ATM0/0/0.1 point-to-point
 pvc 0/106 
  class-vc Sprint-ISP
  service-policy out cbwfq2ISPonPVC

>sho policy-map interface
 
        Class Random       Tail   Minimum   Maximum     Mark       Output
                drop       drop threshold threshold  probability  packets
        0    6960177   19227320         5        10     1/8     962935241
        8        245         16        15        22     1/16     47165439
        16         0          0        20        30     1/32      2754705
        24         0          0        30        45     1/64     18453509
        48         0          0        40        60     1/128       62112
        56         0          0        50        75     1/256      119861
      fair-queue: per-flow queue limit 24
      queue-limit 72


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