NMC Lab# 18 QoS Configuration

From: Dennis J. Hartmann (dennisjhartmann@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Sep 24 2005 - 00:13:30 GMT-3


    While I do NOT endorse adaptive traffic-shaping for VoIP networks of any
sort, I have come across this scenario in a CCIE practice test. The
question wants the admin to configure a Frame-Relay QoS policy that will
adapt rates based on interface congestion because the interface only runs at
125kbps, but there are multiple PVCs terminating on the interface. This
calls for the frame-relay adaptive-shaping interface-congestion command in
the map-class.

 

    I don't think the answer key is correct though. In the following
policy, the mapclass has the cir and mincir configured and the CBWFQ policy
is being called to carve up the bandwidth on the interface. I don't believe
that the MQC has the ability to configure a policy based on the cir in a
frame map-class. This is why we normally use nested policies to configure
frame-relay traffic-shaping and congestion management. The adaptive
traffic-shaping interface-congestion feature is not a part of the MQC
however.

 

    Given the scenario, I believe the only logical choice would be to put a
bandwith 125 statement on the Serial 0/0 interface so the CBWFQ congestion
management policy is based on 125kbps, not the default of 1544kbps.

 

    Comments and suggestions welcome.

 

interface Serial0/0
 no ip address
 encapsulation frame-relay
 no fair-queue
 frame-relay class Frame-QOS
 frame-relay traffic-shaping

 policy-map QOS
  class QOS-1
   priority percent 30
   set dscp ef
  class QOS-3
   bandwidth percent 20
   set dscp af33
   set fr-de
  class QOS-2
   bandwidth percent 30
   set dscp af31
  class class-default
   fair-queue
   set dscp default

 class-map match-all QOS-1
  match ip precedence 5
 class-map match-all QOS-2
  match ip precedence 3
 class-map match-all QOS-3
  match ip precedence 1

map-class frame-relay Frame-QOS
 frame-relay cir 125000
 frame-relay mincir 32000

 frame-relay adaptive-shaping interface-congestion
 service-policy output QOS

Sincerely,

Dennis J. Hartmann

White Pine Communications

dh8@pobox.com

CCSI#23402 / CCVP / CCIP / CCNP

Cisco Optical, VPN & IDS Specialist

MCSE



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