[c-nsp] QoS for MetroEthernet

omar parihuana omar.parihuana at gmail.com
Sun Jan 31 13:03:35 EST 2010


Hi Pavel,

Unfortunately I'm in a remote location but I'm thinking about install a
WireShark in a client PC.

Rgds. & Thanks.

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Pavel Skovajsa
<pavel.skovajsa at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Omar,
>
> No you definively should not take any special considerations for Metro
> link - you are the end customer the service is transparent to you - it
> moves packets back and forth.
>
> Therefore it is hard to tell what is the actual problem. It is easy to
> troubleshoot though - sniff it:
> a) sniff the SQL activity with Serial link
> b) sniff the SQL activity with Metro link
> c) compare and find out what types of packets do not get on the other side.
>
> There could be number of things that can go wrong - like service
> provider maximum MTU, certain TOS values being dropped etc. etc.
>
> -pavel
>
> p.s. For sniffing we usually use Wireshark.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 5:31 PM, omar parihuana
> <omar.parihuana at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm facing a strange problem I think that is a QoS configuration, I've
> tried
> > some conf without success. The situation is as follows:
> >
> > Actually I have a 1Mbps Serial link between two remote branchs and one
> > application in particular: a SQL client/server application that works
> fine.
> > (there are other apps but is not relevant now). We've contracted a
> > MetroEthernet Link at 1Mbps between the same branchs (in order to replace
> > the current serial link) In each site I put a router after migrate the
> SQL
> > app didn't work (it got suck for  a long time). Therefore I decided raise
> a
> > GRE tunnel between both sites, applied QoS conf, adjust the tcp mss
> without
> > success, all working well (additional apps and voice traffic) but SQL app
> > didn't work.  I don't know what's happenning with this app, but if you
> have
> > faced the same problem, or I need take special considerations for
> > MetroEthernel Link please your comments will be appreciated.
> >
> > I paste my conf:
> >
> > !
> > !
> > policy-map child13
> >  class VOIP-TRAFFIC
> >  priority 200
> >  class DATA-IMPORTANT
> >  bandwidth percent 60
> >  class class-default
> >  fair-queue
> > policy-map tunnel13
> >  class class-default
> >  shape average 1024000
> >  service-policy child13
> > !
> > !
> > !
> > interface Tunnel13
> >  bandwidth 1000
> >  ip address 10.1.13.1 255.255.255.0
> >  ip tcp adjust-mss 1440
> >  load-interval 30
> >  qos pre-classify
> >  tunnel source 172.21.1.17
> >  tunnel destination 172.21.1.19
> >  service-policy output tunnel13
> > !
> > interface FastEthernet0/0
> >  description LAN interface
> >  ip address 172.16.96.6 255.255.252.0
> >  no ip unreachables
> >  no ip proxy-arp
> >  load-interval 30
> >  speed 100
> >  full-duplex
> > !
> > interface FastEthernet0/1
> >  description MAN interface
> >  bandwidth 3000
> >  ip address 172.21.1.17 255.255.255.248
> >  no ip proxy-arp
> >  load-interval 30
> >  speed 100
> >  full-duplex
> >
> >
> > --
> > Omar E.P.T
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