topic Configure QoS on C3 SecureStack to prioritize video/voice traffic. in ExtremeSwitching (EOS)

Configure QoS on C3 SecureStack to prioritize video/voice traffic.

Joshua_Sanders — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 08:54:00 GMT

I have a DR site connected to my corporate office. The DR site is using a older C3G Securestack. The corporate office is using a N7 switch with platinum DFEs.

My question is how do I configure QoS. The config guide and feature guide on the Extreme website might as well be in ancient Babylonian. It doesn't make any sense to me. All I'm trying to do is ensure VoIP traffic and my video conference system gets first priority. If the video conference system is tagging packets as EF, why can't I just create an access-list in the (router) like this and assign it to a vlan interface.

access-list 100 permit ip any any dscp ef assign-queue 5
access-list 100 permit ip any any assign-queue 4

I this should work but I never lose my jitter on the video system and the Enterasys documentation doesn't ever seem to offer this as an example.

RE: Configure QoS on C3 SecureStack to prioritize video/voice traffic.

Curtis_Parish1 — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 18:17:00 GMT

Can you give us more information as to how these different systems and sites are connected? If they are connected via a WAN, do you know if the WAN vendor is honoring QOS?

RE: Configure QoS on C3 SecureStack to prioritize video/voice traffic.

Joshua_Sanders — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 00:15:00 GMT

The two sites are connected over AT&T MPLS network over an IPSec tunnel via some Cisco routers. QoS is configured on those. My issue is how to configure the last mile on the C3 switch. For some reason I can't seem to wrap my brain around how to do it.

RE: Configure QoS on C3 SecureStack to prioritize video/voice traffic.

Jeremy_Gibbs — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 00:44:00 GMT

I could generate the code you would need to do this in "policy". That is the Enterasys way of doing things.

RE: Configure QoS on C3 SecureStack to prioritize video/voice traffic.

Joshua_Sanders — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 01:03:00 GMT

I can still implement "policy" if I don't have Netsight installed right? If so I would love your block of code

RE: Configure QoS on C3 SecureStack to prioritize video/voice traffic.

Jeremy_Gibbs — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 01:03:00 GMT

Sure, give me a little bit.

RE: Configure QoS on C3 SecureStack to prioritize video/voice traffic.

Jeremy_Gibbs — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 02:17:00 GMT

set policy profile 1 name "Default Policy" pvid-status enable pvid 4095 cos-status enable cos 6

you can also mess with

#cos stateset cos state enable
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#cos setting
set cos setting 0 irl-reference 0
set cos setting 1 irl-reference 1
set cos setting 2 irl-reference 2
set cos setting 3 irl-reference 3
set cos setting 4 irl-reference 4
set cos setting 5 irl-reference 5
set cos setting 6 irl-reference 6
set cos setting 7 irl-reference 7

You can also apply a policy to a port by

set policy port ge.1.4 1 <- 1 is the policy ID.

show policy profile all

RE: Configure QoS on C3 SecureStack to prioritize video/voice traffic.

Daniel_Coughlin — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 02:17:00 GMT

This looks correct, great example Jeremy.

RE: Configure QoS on C3 SecureStack to prioritize video/voice traffic.

Joshua_Sanders — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 05:08:00 GMT

Where in this is the prioritization happening? I entered what you gave me (except I used policy index 8 and called it "video" but I'm still seeing about 20ms of jitter and a large amount of packet loss on the video conference system plugged into ge.1.4

RE: Configure QoS on C3 SecureStack to prioritize video/voice traffic.

Erik_Auerswald — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 12:07:00 GMT

Hi,

did you see the command
set cos state enablein the above (it was appended to the preceding line and could be overlooked). This is needed for re-marking.

The C3 prioritizes on the CoS bits by default. The policy in the above re-marks inbound frames with CoS 6. This policy is used if it is bound to a port or user. That could be accomplished using
set policy port PORTSTRING POLICY_IDIn the example above, PORTSTRING was ge.1.4 and POLICY_ID was 1.

You might be interested in one of the following GTAC Knowledge articles:

The QoS documentation is indeed hard to read, because it describes a complex system in just a few pages.

Erik

RE: Configure QoS on C3 SecureStack to prioritize video/voice traffic.