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WAAS don't traffic Optimized

Roberto Casagrande — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:51:45 GMT

Hi ,

I've problem with some waas device of my infrastructure .

the version i 4.4.1.

when I check the statistic I see that Optimization is null.

waasballdre1#show statistics conn

Current Active Optimized Flows: 0

Current Active Optimized TCP Plus Flows: 0

Current Active Optimized TCP Only Flows: 0

Current Active Optimized TCP Preposition Flows: 0

Current Active Auto-Discovery Flows: 4

Current Reserved Flows: 10

Current Active Pass-Through Flows: 26

Historical Flows: 85

O-ST: Origin State, T-ST: Terminal State

E: Established, S: Syn, A: Ack, F: Fin, R: Reset

s: sent, r: received, O: Options, P: Passthrough

Local IP:Port Remote IP:Port Peer ID O-ST T-ST ConnType

10.2.144.11:80 10.20.21.42:4256 N/A Sr Sso EXTERNAL CLIENT

10.2.144.12:80 10.20.21.42:4261 N/A Sr Sso EXTERNAL CLIENT

10.2.144.11:80 10.20.21.42:2343 N/A Sr Sso EXTERNAL CLIENT

10.2.144.12:80 10.20.21.42:2347 N/A Sr Sso EXTERNAL CLIENT

Local IP:Port Remote IP:Port Peer ID ConnType

150.217.21.17:1137 10.1.144.73:4637 N/A PT In Progress

10.9.144.44:50352 10.9.21.42:2000 N/A PT In Progress

150.217.21.17:1137 10.1.144.78:1548 N/A PT In Progress

150.217.21.17:1137 10.1.144.88:3140 N/A PT In Progress

192.86.102.121:80 10.1.144.86:3620 N/A PT No Peer

150.217.21.17:1137 10.1.144.83:4067 N/A PT In Progress

10.9.21.42:2000 10.9.144.32:15133 N/A PT In Progress

10.1.144.86:3620 192.86.102.121:80 N/A PT No Peer

I have controlled the application policy and now is identical to other device that it good work .

what can I do?

thanks.

Roberto

WAAS don't traffic Optimized

Ahmad Basel Jaber — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:23:34 GMT

Hi Roberto,

Is it inline deployment or WCCP redirection? What is the WCCP device? What is the WCCP status? Please briefly explain your network topology and traffic flow.

Best regards,

Ahmad

WAAS don't traffic Optimized

Roberto Casagrande — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:05:13 GMT

Hi Ahmad,

all waas are (wae512 edge end core wae 612 ) configured with wccp .In the edge I've router 1841 with this release IOS(c1841-advsecurityk9-mz.124-10c.bin) . In other site with i've the same hardware device and the waas good work the IOS is "flash:c1841-advsecurityk9-mz.124-9.T6.bin". however in the other edge site I've the same situation (software and hardware ) that I write above but waas doesn't optimize the traffic .

wccp status

router

Global WCCP information:

Router information:

Router Identifier: 217.24.255.249

Protocol Version: 2.0

Service Identifier: 61

Number of Service Group Clients: 1

Number of Service Group Routers: 1

Total Packets s/w Redirected: 229235

Process: 11

Fast: 0

CEF: 229224

Redirect access-list: -none-

Total Packets Denied Redirect: 0

Total Packets Unassigned: 3483

Group access-list: -none-

Total Messages Denied to Group: 0

Total Authentication failures: 0

Total Bypassed Packets Received: 0

Service Identifier: 62

Number of Service Group Clients: 1

Number of Service Group Routers: 1

Total Packets s/w Redirected: 270960

Process: 111867

Fast: 0

CEF: 159093

Redirect access-list: -none-

Total Packets Denied Redirect: 0

Total Packets Unassigned: 4370

Group access-list: -none-

Total Messages Denied to Group: 0

Total Authentication failures: 0

Total Bypassed Packets Received: 0

WCCP in the WAAS

waasballdre1#sh wccp status

WCCP version 2 is enabled and currently active

waasballdre1#

My network waas is:

- in the core I've n°2 wae-612 and n°1 wae-512 Central manager,

- edge router 1841 or 2811 or 2911 and wae-512 (22 device)

thanks.

WAAS don't traffic Optimized

Ahmad Basel Jaber — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:53:31 GMT

Hi Roberto,

Check the output of show ip wccp 61 detail and show ip wccp 62 detail, then make sure you have applied the ip wccp redirection command correctly in the LAN and WAN interfaces.

Run the following test:

Initiate CIFS connection from one of your clients, then check the connection statistics on WAAS (both Edge and Core WAEs) for this connection using show stat conn | in client_ip_address command. If the packets have been redirected you will see the connection in this output, based on the connection status you will have better understanding of the issue.

What is the wccp configuration you have on the WAE? Are you using GRE for forwarding, return and egress methods?

Note: show egress command on WAAS will show you the applied egress method.

Best regards,

Ahmad

WAAS don't traffic Optimized

Roberto Casagrande — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:26:50 GMT

Hi Ahmad,

in the step 1 is ok and I've post the output:

al-balldre#sh ip wccp 61 detail

WCCP Client information:

WCCP Client ID: 10.5.144.33

Protocol Version: 2.0

State: Usable

Initial Hash Info: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Assigned Hash Info: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Hash Allotment: 256 (100.00%)

Packets s/w Redirected: 392369

Connect Time: 03:30:42

Bypassed Packets

Process: 0

Fast: 0

CEF: 0

al-balldre#sh ip wccp 62 detail

WCCP Client information:

WCCP Client ID: 10.5.144.33

Protocol Version: 2.0

State: Usable

Initial Hash Info: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Assigned Hash Info: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Hash Allotment: 256 (100.00%)

Packets s/w Redirected: 459781

Connect Time: 03:30:47

Bypassed Packets

Process: 0

Fast: 0

CEF: 0

al-balldre#

and in the interface is all configuired with any site (I've check).

THE TEST

waasballdre1#sh statistics connection | in 10.1.144.243

10.1.144.243:2472 10.1.21.41:445 N/A PT No Peer

yes I'm using wccp gre

waasballdre1#sh wccp gre

Transparent GRE packets received: 1324923

Transparent non-GRE packets received: 0

Transparent non-GRE non-WCCP packets received: 0

Total packets accepted: 896070

Invalid packets received: 19

Packets received with invalid service: 0

Packets received on a disabled service: 0

Packets received too small: 0

Packets dropped due to zero TTL: 0

Packets dropped due to bad buckets: 0

Packets dropped due to no redirect address: 0

Packets dropped due to loopback redirect: 0

Pass-through pkts on non-owned bucket: 0

Connections bypassed due to load: 0

Packets sent back to router: 0

GRE packets sent to router (not bypass): 0

Packets sent to another WAE: 0

GRE fragments redirected: 0

GRE encapsulated fragments received: 2840

Packets failed encapsulated reassembly: 0

Packets failed GRE encapsulation: 0

Packets dropped due to invalid fwd method: 0

Packets dropped due to insufficient memory: 0

Packets bypassed, no pending connection: 0

Connections bypassed during wccp shutdown: 0

Connections bypassed due to bypass-list lookup:0

Conditionally Accepted connections: 0

Conditionally Bypassed connections: 0

L2 Bypass packets destined for loopback: 0

Packets w/WCCP GRE received too small: 0

Packets dropped due to received on loopback: 2

Packets dropped due to IP access-list deny: 0

Packets fragmented for bypass: 0

Packets fragmented for egress: 0

Packet pullups needed: 0

Packets dropped due to no route found: 0

waasballdre1#

waasballdre1#show egress-methods

Intercept method : WCCP

WCCP negotiated return method : WCCP GRE

Egress Method Egress Method

Destination Configured Used

----------- ---------------------- -------------

any IP Forwarding IP Forwarding

Intercept method : Generic L2

Egress Method Egress Method

Destination Configured Used

----------- ---------------------- -------------

any not configurable IP Forwarding

waasballdre1#

----------part of configuration of my waas

sh run:

wccp router-list 1 10.5.144.1

wccp tcp-promiscuous service-pair 61 62 failure-detection 30

wccp tcp-promiscuous service-pair 61 62 router-list-num 1

wccp version 2

nota : I've copy one file in the PC of the Balldre from my server in the center site . when the copy is finished , I've paste again and the time for the copy is the same.

The waas does not cache.

thanks.

WAAS don't traffic Optimized

Ahmad Basel Jaber — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:34:13 GMT

Hi Roberto,

Checking the following output:

waasballdre1#sh statistics connection | in 10.1.144.243

10.1.144.243:2472 10.1.21.41:445 N/A PT No Peer

The WAAS is not able to discover the peer device thats why the connection is not optimized and it is in PT (Pass Through).

Do you have any firewalls in between the edge WAE and the core WAE? What kind of firewalls (cisco or other vendor)?

Make sure all the packets for the client connections are passing through the WAE.

Re-do the same test and check the connection statistics on the Core WAEs.

Best regards,

Ahmad

WAAS don't traffic Optimized

Roberto Casagrande — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:10:33 GMT

Hi Ahmad,

I haven't any firewall between wae devices.

sh statistics for Core WAE:

WAAS1#sh statistics connection | in 10.1.144.243

10.1.144.243:5631 10.20.21.49:24803 N/A PT In Progress

10.20.21.49:24803 10.1.144.243:5631 N/A PT In Progress

WAAS1#

WAAS2#sh statistics connection | in 10.1.144.243

10.1.21.41:445 10.1.144.243:2548 00:1a:64:f2:3b:5b PT Asymmetric

10.1.144.243:5631 10.20.21.49:24803 N/A PT In Progress

10.20.21.49:24803 10.1.144.243:5631 N/A PT In Progress

10.1.144.243:2548 10.1.21.41:445 00:1a:64:f2:3b:5b PT Asymmetric

WAAS2#

thanks.

Roberto

Re: WAAS don't traffic Optimized

Ahmad Basel Jaber — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:35:13 GMT

Hi Roberto,

Check the connection statistics on WAAS2:

WAAS2#sh statistics connection | in 10.1.144.243

10.1.21.41:445 10.1.144.243:2548 00:1a:64:f2:3b:5b PT Asymmetric

10.1.144.243:2548 10.1.21.41:445 00:1a:64:f2:3b:5b PT Asymmetric

The connections been placed in PT because of Asymmetric traffic flow, which mean not all the packets are passing through the same WAE.

Note: The WAAS is using TCP option 0x21 to perform auto-discovery for that reason all the packets between the client and the server should pass through the the same WAASs.

You need to review the traffic flow and the WCCP configuration to make sure the Asymmetric paths have been removed, then the WAAS will start optimizing the traffic.

Please let me know if you require any help figuring that out.

Best regards,

Ahmad

WAAS don't traffic Optimized

Roberto Casagrande — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:52:34 GMT

thank you , but i don't undstand very well.

in the center site I have this configurration:

sw-core-1#sh ip wccp 61 detail

WCCP Client information:

WCCP Client ID: 10.5.21.35

Protocol Version: 2.0

State: Usable

Redirection: GRE

Packet Return: GRE

Assignment: HASH

Initial Hash Info: 00000000000000000000000000000000

00000000000000000000000000000000

Assigned Hash Info: 00000000000000000000000000000000

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Hash Allotment: 128 (50.00%)

Packets s/w Redirected: 2150140

Connect Time: 02:10:59

Bypassed Packets

Process: 0

CEF: 4853

Errors: 0

WCCP Client ID: 10.5.21.33

Protocol Version: 2.0

State: Usable

Redirection: GRE

Packet Return: GRE

Assignment: HASH

Initial Hash Info: 00000000000000000000000000000000

00000000000000000000000000000000

Assigned Hash Info: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

00000000000000000000000000000000

Hash Allotment: 128 (50.00%)

Packets s/w Redirected: 18452807

Connect Time: 2d02h

Bypassed Packets

Process: 0

CEF: 4853

Errors: 0

sw-core-1#sh ip wccp 62 detail

WCCP Client information:

WCCP Client ID: 10.5.21.35

Protocol Version: 2.0

State: Usable

Redirection: GRE

Packet Return: GRE

Assignment: HASH

Initial Hash Info: 00000000000000000000000000000000

00000000000000000000000000000000

Assigned Hash Info: 00000000000000000000000000000000

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Hash Allotment: 128 (50.00%)

Packets s/w Redirected: 285451

Connect Time: 02:11:19

Bypassed Packets

Process: 57

CEF: 26252

Errors: 0

WCCP Client ID: 10.5.21.33

Protocol Version: 2.0

State: Usable

Redirection: GRE

Packet Return: GRE

Assignment: HASH

Initial Hash Info: 00000000000000000000000000000000

00000000000000000000000000000000

Assigned Hash Info: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

00000000000000000000000000000000

Hash Allotment: 128 (50.00%)

Packets s/w Redirected: 5382805

Connect Time: 2d02h

Bypassed Packets

Process: 57

CEF: 26252

Errors: 0

sw-core-1#

What can I do for forced the traffic to one WAAS (waas1 or waas2)?

Please help me..

Roberto

WAAS don't traffic Optimized

Roberto Casagrande — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:02:58 GMT

Hi ,

Now i have shut down the waas1 in the site CORE. this is the situation:

waasballdre1#sh stat connection | in 10.1.144.243

10.1.21.41:445 10.1.144.243:2548 N/A PT In Progress

10.1.144.243:5631 10.20.21.49:24803 N/A PT In Progress

10.20.21.49:24803 10.1.144.243:5631 N/A PT In Progress

10.1.144.243:2548 10.1.21.41:445 N/A PT In Progress

waasballdre1#

WAAS2#sh statistics connection | in 10.1.144.243

10.1.21.41:445 10.1.144.243:2548 N/A PT In Progress

10.1.144.243:5631 10.20.21.49:24803 N/A PT In Progress

10.20.21.49:24803 10.1.144.243:5631 N/A PT In Progress

10.1.144.243:2548 10.1.21.41:445 N/A PT In Progress

WAAS2#

thanks

Roberto

WAAS don't traffic Optimized

Ahmad Basel Jaber — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 02:14:56 GMT

Hi Roberto,

The WCCP will make sure that all packets within the same flow will be redirected to same WAAS automatically, you dont need to perform anything to force that.

Can you explain brifly the WCCP design you have on both edge and core routers?

What is the client and the server IP addresses you are using in the test?

Get a fresh copy of show ip 61/62 detail from both side with WAAS1 shuted down.

The best action to take now, is to capture the traffic on client, server, edge and core WAEs for the same connection and get them in pcap format so you can check exactly what part of packets' flow breaks the auto-discovery.

Best regards,

Ahmad

WAAS don't traffic Optimized

Cesar Roque — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 03:03:06 GMT

Hello Robert,

Do you have a diagram with this topology???

WAAS don't traffic Optimized

Jorge Bejarano — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 05:38:25 GMT

Hello, Roberto

Could you try to test with LZ, DRE, TFO and HTTPAO, then LZ+DRE and so on to check which one is failing?

Did you apply change before this situation started? Has it ever worked?

Do you have any type of device in between the traffic like a firewall?

Which is the current result if you run this command again: #sh statistics connection | in 10.1.144.243?

Jorge

WAAS don't traffic Optimized

Roberto Casagrande — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:06:11 GMT

Hello,

Sorry for my late answer, but I was in holiday.

Yes , before the upgrade this waas was functioning normaly (such do you see, more waas is working correctly).

I haven't any type of firewall between sites.

This is the topology:

thanks .

Roberto