I would like to implement QOS on a pair of T1s being used for multicast. I was told by Cisco TAC to use CBWFQ, sounds reasonable.
You get up to 64 classes (queues) including a default that should run WRED.
I would like to set up one class for the MC traffic and the PIM supporting it. We are interfacing an Enterasys router with a 7513 WAN router. The Enterasys is running standard PIM Sparse.
When I tried to create an ACL to control the traffic into the class, I used "permit ip 224.0.0.0 0.0.0.255 any". This should allow the multicast traffic into the queue. I was wondering if I should also allow any PIM protocols into this outbound queue.
By default the CBWFQ traffic is set to 75% of the IF rate. My thought is to set the bandwidth for this class in the policy map to 750Kb. I would then set the BW of the default class to 250Kb.
We have about 400 users here so I thought that I would use WRED on the default with the number of queues in it set to 64. This should accomodate the wildest number of TCP connections without using the default value of 256 and wasting buffer.
We aren't using VoIP so I haven't specified a priority queue for RTP and don't know how.
Bottom line. I just want to get a last hop solution going where I prioritize the multicast-related traffic. Am I doing enough by running the 224. traffic into the MC class queue?
We are not using Auto RP so I am not concerned about that protocol but I don't know whether or not to run some other PIM protocols into the queue.
I would like to know how many classes I can really have on a 7513.
