frame-relay priority and traffic shaping

From: Jack Heney (jheneyccie@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Tue Nov 07 2000 - 19:48:16 GMT-3


   
Sorry about the empty post...Hit the wrong key by accident...I've manged to
get frame-relay traffic-shaping and priority up and running, but I don't
need ELMI for the priority as stated on CCO, which I haven't quite figured
out....here's what I did:

Frame-relay link between R3 and R4 with 4 active dlci's (403, 413, 423,
433). I wanted to test out priority, so I set up a priority list that gives
ICMP high priority, TCP traffic medium priority, and everything else will
end up with normal priority. I then configured 2 map classes - "pings"
(with a CIR of 128000) and "telnet" (with a CIR of 64000) to set the
frame-relay parameters for each VC. Here's the config on R4 (R3 is the same
except for the IP address):

interface Serial0/0
ip address 9.1.1.4 255.255.255.0
encapsulation frame-relay
no ip mroute-cache
no fair-queue
frame-relay traffic-shaping
frame-relay priority-dlci-group 1 403 413 423 433
frame-relay interface-dlci 403
  class pings
frame-relay interface-dlci 413
  class telnet
frame-relay interface-dlci 423
frame-relay interface-dlci 433
!
router rip
version 2
network 9.0.0.0
!
map-class frame-relay pings
frame-relay adaptive-shaping becn
frame-relay cir 128000
frame-relay bc 16000
frame-relay mincir 64000
!
map-class frame-relay telnet
frame-relay adaptive-shaping becn
frame-relay cir 64000
frame-relay bc 8000
frame-relay mincir 32000

access-list 100 permit icmp any any
access-list 101 permit tcp any any
priority-list 1 protocol ip high list 100
priority-list 1 protocol ip medium list 101
!
If I understand this correctly, by combining the use of "frame-relay
adaptive-shaping becn" and "frame-relay mincir", if the switch were to send
a BECN along dlci 403 or 413, the virtual circuit would drop down to the
configured mincir. I watched the counters that were listed under "show
frame-relay pvc" and the input/output packet counters on dlci 403 would only
increment if I ping, and on 413 they would only increment if I telnet (or do
something else TCP related). The counters on 423 would increment due to RIP
updates.

I think there is a lot more you can do with FRTS, this is just a sample
configuration I came up with to test out the prioritization. I think I
could also prioritize traffic on an individual DLCI using "frame-relay
priority-group #" in the map-class, so you could actually designate one dlci
for use with TCP traffic, as I have done above, and then use another
priority-list to prioritize certain TCP traffic on that dlci.

If anyone has any commnents on the above or has an interesting
configuration, I'd love to see it.
hth,
Jack



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