[c-nsp] Limiting bandwidth from specific source

Antoine Monnier mrantoinemonnier at gmail.com
Wed Oct 21 02:49:02 EDT 2015


thanks to all for the feedback.

Jeremy, would you know since which release that NBAR 2 capability of
matching youtube is available? or at least on which release you have
implemented that.

thanks

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Jeremy Bresley <brez at brezworks.com> wrote:

> Since you specificially mentioned an ASR1K, if you have the AVC license
> ($10K list RTU license), you can enable NBAR2 which does identify Youtube
> traffic.
>
> Router#sh ip nbar protocol-id youtube
>
> Protocol Name             id            type
> ----------------------------------------------
> youtube                  82            L7 STANDARD
>
> Router#sh ip nbar protocol-attribute youtube
>
>            Protocol Name : youtube
>                encrypted : encrypted-yes
>                   tunnel : tunnel-no
>                 category : consumer-streaming
>             sub-category : consumer-video-streaming
>        application-group : flash-group
>           p2p-technology : p2p-tech-no
>            traffic-class : multimedia-streaming
>       business-relevance : business-irrelevant
>
> There are some overhead concerns with doing DPI on all your traffic, make
> sure you're not turning this on a link or router that is overtaxed, etc,
> but it can be done.  We do this on our internal MPLS headends running on
> ASR1004/RP2s and don't normally exceed 10-15% CPU usage at gig speeds.  You
> can also use the NBAR classifiers in a QoS policy if they want to
> rate-limit/shape/police that traffic.
>
> Jeremy "TheBrez" Bresley
> brez at brezworks.com
>
>
>
> On 10/20/2015 1:45 AM, Antoine Monnier wrote:
>
>> thanks Vijay.
>>
>> so just to clarify the problem is on some customer facing circuits.
>>
>> Is there a way to identify "youtube" specific traffic compared to "all of
>> Google services" traffic? Does Youtube use specific IP ranges?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 8:42 AM, Vijay S <vijay.hcr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Well Google has ggc program which will give you free Google peering you
>>> dont need to pay to Google or any service provider except connectivity
>>> cost.
>>>
>>> And to limit traffic from specific source you can use class based qos.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Vijay A.
>>> On Oct 20, 2015 12:08 PM, "Antoine Monnier" <mrantoinemonnier at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> We are running into capacity issues on some internet pipes and this is
>>>> affecting "business" traffic.
>>>> A quick analysis showed us that roughly 40% of traffic on that specific
>>>> pipe comes from Google-owned IP ranges.
>>>> We are guessing that most of it is Youtube and we are being asked to
>>>> come
>>>> up with a solution to throttle that traffic. (Apparently making users
>>>> sign
>>>> internet-use policy is not effective!)
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to identify youtube specific traffic on an ASR1K purely
>>>> based on L3 info?
>>>>
>>>> And going more broadly, how are others handling such issues generally?
>>>>
>>>> (sure, we can upgrade the bandwidth if they have the money, but
>>>> congestion
>>>> point is just going to move further down their internal WAN network)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
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