[c-nsp] Bandwidth displayed on Tunnel interfaces

[Steve Bertrand]

Jay Hennigan wrote:
> Steve Bertrand wrote:

>> If I understand the Cisco documentation correctly, the "BW" is used
>> exclusively for link metric/cost, but it also shows up in my MRTG graphs
>> and skews the percentage results.
>>
>> Since these tunnels operate on top of the same underlying connection
>> type as the IPv4 infrastructure, I'd like to set the bandwidth manually
>> to the same setting as the interface type the tunnel is connected over
>> (or better yet, set it globally for all tunnel interfaces).
>>
>> AFAICT, doing this won't have any operational impact other than what it
>> would normally have on an IGP (which is fine, because all IGP is over
>> direct Ethernet), and fixing my graphing/statistical applications.
>>
>> Can I get some feedback on whether my thinking is correct? Tunnel
>> bandwidth should be 100Mb:
>>
>> pe2-fibre#sh int tun5
>> Tunnel5 is up, line protocol is up
>>   Hardware is Tunnel
>>   Description: IPv6 BGP Tunnel to he.net
>>   MTU 1514 bytes, BW 9 Kbit, DLY 500000 usec,
>>      reliability 255/255, txload 18/255, rxload 163/255
>>   Encapsulation TUNNEL, loopback not set
>>   Keepalive not set
>>   Tunnel source 208.70.111.131, destination 216.218.229.118
>>   Tunnel protocol/transport IPv6/IP
>>   Tunnel TTL 255
>>   Fast tunneling enabled
>>   Tunnel transmit bandwidth 8000 (kbps)
>>   Tunnel receive bandwidth 8000 (kbps)
> 
> Correct.
> 
> conf t
> int tu5
> bandwidth 100000
> ^Z
> wr

Much, MUCH better!

Now my quick graphs actually account for proper v6 throughput.

Thanks!

Steve
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