ā05-25-2016 10:03 PM - edited ā03-05-2019 04:05 AM
For a branch router, 1 WAN interface with committed rate lower than line rate (1Gbps), and a 1Gbps LAN interface.
QoS policy is applied on WAN outbound direction to protect voice and some other traffic. What would be a reason to apply QoS policy on the LAN interface?
For LAN interface ingress, assuming router's forwarding performance isn't a bottoleneck, there should be no reason to apply a QoS policy as traffic in this direction already has a policy on the same device WAN egress.
For LAN interface egress, if there is no bottoleneck on the LAN, is there any reason to apply a policer/shaper here? Marking might has some valid use cases. But isn't that better done on the WAN ingress interface?
Thanks.
ā05-26-2016 07:35 AM
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What would be a reason to apply QoS policy on the LAN interface?
Same reason you apply to any other interface, to meet some QoS goal.
For LAN interface ingress, assuming router's forwarding performance isn't a bottoleneck, there should be no reason to apply a QoS policy as traffic in this direction already has a policy on the same device WAN egress.
Probably not, but much depends on what you're trying to accomplish. For example, although you note you don't have a bottleneck, just as with ACLs, policing sooner is more "efficient". Or, for example, traffic on an ingress interface goes to different egress interfaces, and you want to manage it there.
For LAN interface egress, if there is no bottoleneck on the LAN, is there any reason to apply a policer/shaper here? Marking might has some valid use cases. But isn't that better done on the WAN ingress interface?
You can not shape with an ingress policy. Again, there can be cases where it's better to police on ingress. For example, if you police user LAN edge ingress ports, you can limit max EF marked traffic to what's expected per user. Trying to do similar, on an aggregate interface, on many platforms, can be more difficult.
ā05-26-2016 07:46 AM
Hi!
Well, as you mentioned, usually ingress PHBs are for Marking really and I see no point in applying a shaper/policier in the ingress that is why many newer platforms does not support this features in the ingress like the 3850 switch.
Hope it helps, best regards!
JC
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