[c-nsp] output rate-limiting not working in 7609

Ian Cox icox at cisco.com
Tue Mar 11 20:34:26 EDT 2008


At 11:14 PM 3/6/2008 +0800, Edwin Lok wrote:
>Hi Tim,
>
>How about the egress policing on a 7600-SIP-400 and SPA-2X1GE-V2 combo?

Ingress and Egress policing on FlexWAN, Enhanced 
FlexWAN, 7600-SIP-200, and 7600-SIP-400 is 
performed the line card by the processors of vary 
types (CPU/NPU depends on the card).


Ian


>Is egress policing done at the egress or still on the FE ingress interfaces?
>
>Thanks
>
>Rgds
>Edwin
>
>On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 1:24 AM, Tim Stevenson <tstevens at cisco.com> wrote:
> > The problem exists as long as there are multiple
> >  active forwarding engines in the box, even 
> if you use the uplinks on the sup.
> >
> >  Tim
> >
> >  (BTW, the uplinks on the RSP are active on both sups).
> >
> >  At 06:51 AM 3/5/2008 -0600, Frank Bulk - iNAME observed:
> >
> >
> > >Perhaps this is a naïve question, as I'm in the same boat as Jimmy, but
> >  >should I put my 2 backbones on my RSP720s 
> instead, one backbone on each of
> >  >them, to avoid the problem?  Will the GigE 
> ports on each of the RSP720s be
> >  >in a working state, or only the active sup?
> >  >
> >  >Frank
> >  >
> >  >-----Original Message-----
> >  >From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
> >  >[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Jimmy
> >  >Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 12:35 AM
> >  >To: tstevens at cisco.com; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> >  >Subject: Re: [c-nsp] output rate-limiting not working in 7609
> >  >
> >  >Hi Tim,
> >  >
> >  >Thanks for your input.
> >  >Actually we have 2 backbones connected to this 7600.
> >  >One is in slot 1 and the other one is in slot 2.
> >  >This explain the n times of the configured rate that I am getting on that
> >  >egress interface rite now (2x155M)
> >  >
> >  >Is there any better workaround? It is not 
> good idea to put both backbones on
> >  >the same slot. It supposes to be for redundancy.
> >  >
> >  >Cheers,
> >  >Jimmy
> >  >
> >  >-----Original Message-----
> >  >From: Tim Stevenson [mailto:tstevens at cisco.com]
> >  >Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 12:30 PM
> >  >To: Jimmy; petelists at templin.org; mtinka at globaltransit.net;
> >  >christian at qunec.net; gniewomir.krol at aci.com.pl; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> >  >Subject: Re: [c-nsp] output rate-limiting not working in 7609
> >  >
> >  >At 08:15 PM 3/3/2008 -0800, Tim Stevenson observed:
> >  > >Jimmy,
> >  > >In 6500/7600, policing and other forwarding decisions are always
> >  > >performed on the INGRESS card - including egress policy enforcement.
> >  >
> >  >Above I meant to say "the INGRESS FORWARDING ENGINE" - which may be just
> >  >one, ie the PFC on the sup (regardless of which card the traffic came in
> >  >on), or could be one of many, ie, one of 
> several DFCs that sit on some/all
> >  >cards. The rest of the below applies in that case.
> >  >Obviously with just one FE, there is only one point of policy action.
> >  >
> >  >Tim
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > >Therefore, in a distributed (ie, w/DFCs) system, you potentially could
> >  > >get n times the configured rate, where n is the number of forwarding
> >  > >engines that traffic destined for the egress interface could
> >  > >potentially come in on.
> >  > >
> >  > >Of course, the problem with your workaround is that no one module will
> >  > >ever allow more than 155M even if no traffic is coming in on the other
> >  > >module.
> >  > >
> >  > >Tim
> >  > >
> >  > >At 11:51 AM 3/4/2008 +0800, Jimmy observed:
> >  > >>Hi guys,
> >  > >>
> >  > >>Thanks for the feedback. Actually I have tried using MQC on the egress
> >  >side.
> >  > >>It is Layer 3 port.
> >  > >>The port is in slot 1. For some reason when I do "show policy-map
> >  > >>interface", it is showing an output from 2 slots instead of 1. I am
> >  > >>using a dirty trick to temporarily solve the issue. I did policing to
> >  > >>155M instead of 310M. With this setting, 
> the traffic can only reach 310M.
> >  > >>
> >  > >>Any idea why we need to configure like that? Or anyone has encountered
> >  > >>the same issue?
> >  > >>
> >  > >>Cheers,
> >  > >>Jimmy
> >  > >>
> >  > >>-------------------------------
> >  > >>interface GigabitEthernet1/9
> >  > >>  ip route-cache flow
> >  > >>  load-interval 30
> >  > >>  speed nonegotiate
> >  > >>  mls netflow sampling
> >  > >>  service-policy input CUSTOMER-310m
> >  > >>  service-policy output CUSTOMER-155M
> >  > >>
> >  > >>policy-map CUSTOMER-155M
> >  > >>   class class-default
> >  > >>    police cir 155000000 bc 15500000 be 15500000 conform-action
> >  > >>transmit exceed-action drop ----> POLICE to 155M
> >  > >>
> >  > >>gw1.hkg4#sh policy int g1/9
> >  > >>  GigabitEthernet1/9
> >  > >>
> >  > >>   Service-policy output: CUSTOMER-155M
> >  > >>
> >  > >>     class-map: class-default (match-any)
> >  > >>       Match: any
> >  > >>       police :
> >  > >>         155000000 bps 15500000 limit 15500000 extended limit
> >  > >>       Earl in slot 1 :
> >  > >>         16889514278576 bytes
> >  > >>         30 second offered rate 196550600 bps
> >  > >>         aggregate-forwarded 13191791357655 bytes action: transmit
> >  > >>         exceeded 3697722920921 bytes action: drop
> >  > >>         aggregate-forward 157101144 bps exceed 40026752 bps
> >  > >>       Earl in slot 2 : 
> ----------------------------> ANOTHER POLICING ???
> >  > >>         14639062953589 bytes
> >  > >>         30 second offered rate 174721136 bps
> >  > >>         aggregate-forwarded 13135487245073 bytes action: transmit
> >  > >>         exceeded 1503575708516 bytes action: drop
> >  > >>         aggregate-forward 159830912 bps exceed 18063232 bps
> >  > >>       Earl in slot 5 :
> >  > >>         30560015 bytes
> >  > >>         30 second offered rate 176 bps
> >  > >>         aggregate-forwarded 30560015 bytes action: transmit
> >  > >>         exceeded 0 bytes action: drop
> >  > >>         aggregate-forward 240 bps exceed 0 bps
> >  > >>
> >  > >>gw1.hkg4#sh mls qos ip g 1/9
> >  > >>    [In] Policy map is 
> CUSTOMER-310m   [Out] Policy map is CUSTOMER-155M
> >  > >>  QoS Summary [IPv4]:      (* - shared 
> aggregates, Mod - switch module)
> >  > >>
> >  > >>       Int Mod Dir  Class-map DSCP  Agg  Trust Fl   AgForward-By
> >  > >>AgPoliced-By
> >  > >>                                    Id         Id
> >  > >>----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >  > >>------
> >  > >>---
> >  > >>      Gi1/9  1  In class-defa    0    1   dscp  0   486690994913
> >  > >>54268431391
> >  > >>      Gi1/9  1 Out class-defa    0    2     --  0   548444567177
> >  > >>399451084094
> >  > >>      Gi1/9  2 Out class-defa    0    1     --  0   492136489401
> >  > >>404181645273 ----> SHOULDN'T HAVE ANY OUTPUT
> >  > >>      Gi1/9  5 Out class-defa    0    1     --  0       30561099
> >  > >>0
> >  > >>-----------------------------------------------
> >  > >>
> >  > >>-----Original Message-----
> >  > >>From: Pete Templin [mailto:petelists at templin.org]
> >  > >>Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 12:26 AM
> >  > >>To: Jimmy
> >  > >>Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> >  > >>Subject: Re: [c-nsp] output rate-limiting not working in 7609
> >  > >>
> >  > >>Jimmy wrote:
> >  > >>
> >  > >> > I have encountered rate-limiting issue on CISCO7609 platform.
> >  > >> >
> >  > >> > Example is:
> >  > >> >
> >  > >> > interface GigabitEthernet1/9
> >  > >> >  rate-limit input 310000000 4843750 9687500 conform-action transmit
> >  > >> > exceed-action drop  rate-limit output 310000000 4843750 9687500
> >  > >> > conform-action transmit exceed-action drop  -------> NOT WORKING
> >  > >> >
> >  > >> > The output rate-limiting is not working. The traffic still can go
> >  > >> > above 310M and can hit 1G.
> >  > >> > I have created SR with cisco. They are saying there is no work
> >  > >> > around for this except that we use ES20 to use policy-map on the
> >  >interface.
> >  > >>
> >  > >>Your example is too short - is it a layer 3 port?  If so, a policer
> >  > >>inside a policy-map should work.  If 
> not, it won't work.  From the Sup720
> >  >datasheet:
> >  > >>rate limiting is possible on "Ingress port or VLAN and egress VLAN or
> >  > >>Layer-3 port".
> >  > >>
> >  > >>pt
> >  > >>
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> >  > >
> >  > >
> >  > >Tim Stevenson, tstevens at cisco.com
> >  > >Routing & Switching CCIE #5561
> >  > >Technical Marketing Engineer, Data Center BU Cisco Systems,
> >  > >http://www.cisco.com IP Phone: 408-526-6759
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> >  >
> >  >Tim Stevenson, tstevens at cisco.com
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> >
> >  Tim Stevenson, tstevens at cisco.com
> >  Routing & Switching CCIE #5561
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