RE: NMC Lab# 18 QoS Configuration

From: simon hart (simon@harttel.com)
Date: Sat Sep 24 2005 - 04:39:07 GMT-3


Hi Dennis,

MQC will pick up on the values assigned within Frame map class when frame
traffic shaping is enabled. In fact MQC will ignore the interface bandwidth
value assigned.

However MQC will use the value of mincir for assigning bandwidths.
Therefore in your example the bandwidth will be carved up as

30% of 32k for QOS-1
30% of 32k for QOS-2
20% of 32k for QOS-3
20% of 32k for Class-default

If no mincir figure was given within the map-class statement then MQC would
pick up on cir/2 = 125000 / 2 for the values.

Now what I am not sure on is the adaptive shaping, perhaps some others could
help.

If the interface is not congested then there will be no traffic shaping.
If there is no traffic shaping will the service policy within the Map class
be active?? If not then the CBWQ will not be working when the interface is
not congested, and thus your set statements will not work. Would really
like some clarity on this

Simon

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
Dennis J. Hartmann
Sent: 24 September 2005 04:14
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: NMC Lab# 18 QoS Configuration

    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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