[c-nsp] OSPF question

[Tony Baade]

The packet loss was caused poor link quality.



-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Burkholder [mailto:ray at oneunified.net] 
Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 5:33 PM
To: Tony Baade; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: RE: [c-nsp] OSPF question

> 
> We experienced an issue on our network where we have a link 
> between 2 cisco ME6524s.  There was packet loss across the 
> link, but the interfaces on either side never actually 
> dropped.  The packet loss however was severe enough to cause 
> problems w/ our OSPF (the neighbor session kept dropping up 
> and down) and as a result this caused our iBGP hellos to 
> timeout, causing an outage affecting several routers.
> 

Was packet loss due to congestion or to bad link quality?

If due to congestion, you can use MQOS to give the CS6 traffic dedicated
bandwidth, thus in congesion, your routing protocols won't drop.


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