[alcatel-nsp] LAG load balance issue 7210 SAS Sx 10G/100G

[Jonathon Exley]

It looks like the SAS-Sx on 20.9 supports hash labels.

Jonathon.



From: alcatel-nsp <alcatel-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net> On Behalf Of Dejan Tepic
Sent: Monday, 31 January 2022 9:56 am
To: Andrey Elperin <mizzy at greenhell.kiev.ua>
Cc: alcatel-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [alcatel-nsp] LAG load balance issue 7210 SAS Sx 10G/100G

Hello and thanks for the input.

You are spot on :) and this is what I was afraid of. We have an option of using 100G interface as well.
Hash-labels are not supported on this model as far as I know.

kind regards
Dejan

Den sön 30 jan. 2022 kl 21:38 skrev Andrey Elperin <mizzy at greenhell.kiev.ua<mailto:mizzy at greenhell.kiev.ua>>:

Hi Dejan,

LAG hashing on any type of 7210 boxes is really very dependent on traffic type. I can assume that in your scenario 7210-A and 7210-B are pure LSRs. Also, if you mentioned BNG - it's very probable that you are using PWs between SR1 and 7210-C.

According to the documentation in LSR role 7210 SAS-Sx have two options to hash LAG traffic:

1. hash-1: by outer MACs of the Ethernet packets that encapsulates an MPLS packets. There is not enough entropy in your case.
2. hash-2: by combination of ingress port ID, label stack (3 topmost labels) and dst IP address. But dst IP address will be used only if there is IP header right after MPLS header (so it won't be used in case of PWs).

Looks like that the simpliest way to increase entropy in your case is to increase number of PWs. Also you can try to play with hash-labels, but I'm not sure that it's supported on SAS-Sx now.

If my guess about your configuration is wrong - pardon me and please provide more details :)

30.01.2022 19:00, Dejan Tepic пишет:
I’m having issues regarding load balance on links between several 7210 SAS Sx
Here is the topology:

SR1----100G----7210-A----2x10G----7210-B----2x10G----7210-C----10G----Accessnode

Traffic egressing 7210-A is not balanced between two 10G links. Not even close (85/5 in percentage)
Traffic egressing 7210-B even worse almost zero traffic on one link

I’v checked interface configuration guide and information about LAG hashing. I’v tested with different algorithms hash-1, hash-2 but nothing is changing.
 I’m having issues regarding load balance on links between several 7210 SAS Sx
Here is the topology:

SR1----100G----7210-A----2x10G----7210-B----2x10G----7210-C----10G----Accessnode

Traffic egressing 7210-A is not balanced between two 10G links. Not even close (85/5 in percentage)
Traffic egressing 7210-B even worse almost zero traffic on one link

I’v checked interface configuration guide and information about LAG hashing. I’v tested with different algorithms hash-1, hash-2 but nothing is changing.

I have a ongoing TAC case and TAC suggested to make all ports in a LAG odd or even which i did but it didnt help.
Latest TAC answer suggest everything is fine ”At this point I dont see this to be an issue until and unless we know the type of traffic that is egressing out of Lag. Its only that the fair distributed of traffic dint happen on to the lag ports. This could happen when there is not much variation available or variations that get nullify with the traffic streams that are egressing out of the Lag”

I have updated TAC case with traffic information which is unicast traffic between BNG och Access nodes.

Did anybody out there experienced this and solved it somehow?
Kind regards
Dejan



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