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Ask the Expert: QoS on Catalyst Switches.

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Welcome to the Cisco Support Community Ask the Expert conversation. This is an opportunity to learn from Cisco experts Shashank Singh and Sweta Morga about implementation and working and troubleshooting QoS on Cisco Catalyst 2960, 3650, 3750, 4500 and 6500 switches.

Shashank Singh  graduated in 2009 with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from VIT University, Vellore India. Prior to joining Cisco he worked at General Electric as a software engineer. Later on he joined the Cisco Technical Assistance Center as an engineer in October of 2009. He has been working on LAN Switching technologies in TAC since then. Shashank also holds a CCNP certificate. QoS on Catalyst switches is one of the areas of his interest.

Sweta Mogra is a Computer Science & Engineering graduate from VIT University, India. She has worked as a consultant with Tata Consultancy Services before joining Cisco's Technical Assistance Center (TAC) in 2011. She is currently working on LAN Switching technologies and QoS as one of her areas of expertise.

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Hi Sweta,Thank you !

Hi Changdong,

Both bandwidth and buffer will be utilized simultenously when there is congestion on the port. Bandwidth actually will determine how many packets will be processed from the queue in each round robin cycle and buffer will determine the maximum number of packets that can be stored in the buffer .

Following commands can be used to check the existing mappings:

sh mls qos maps cos-output-q >>> map of cos values to output queue

sh mls qos maps dscp-output-q >>> map of dscp values to output queue

sh mls qos maps cos-input-q >>> map of cos values to input queue

sh mls qos maps dscp-input-q >>> map of dscp values to input queue

Unless changed via configuration, the values seen through the above commands are the default (standard) values and the recommened ones as well. But however, you can change them as per your requirements by commands below:

sw(config)# mls qos srr-queue input cos-map queue 1 thershold 3 0

! this will map cos 0 to input queue 1 threshold 3.

sw(config)# mls qos srr-queue input dscp-map queue 1 thershold 2 46

! this will map dscp 46 to input queue 1 threshold 2.

In similar way, you can change the mappings for output queues.

Regards,

Sweta

How can I view the packet counts in each egress queue exiting a 6500 switch port?

As far as I know, there is no command to show packet count transmitted per queue on 6500. However we can check the number of packets dropped in each queue using 'sh queueing interface gix/y' command. We can also check the packets transmitted after hitting a particular class-map (if applied via a policy map on an interface) using "sh mls qos ip" command.

Regards,

Shashank

Aileron88
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Hi all,

Do you see any future developments in bringing a more unified approach to deploying QoS on Catalyst Switches? I understand the hardware used between models in very different, which makes deploying QoS on a 6500 very different to deploying QoS on a 3750. Are there plans to perhaps have the priority queue numbered as queue number X on all Catalyst platforms?

Thanks,

Adam

Hi Adam,

As far as I know, for existing platforms there are no plans to change the prevailing architecture. This again comes from the fact that the ASICs used in different platforms have been designed in different ways. This however may be a possibility for upcoming products.

-Sweta

Hi Sanjeev,

Request you to share the model of switches and routers which you are using in your network.

-Sweta

HI Sweta,

Below is two routers and two switches connected.

There are 4 devices in the network, located at call center, and accessing the CIC servers. I don't know how to enclose the configuration files.....pls. suggest if i can paste the configurations here for all the devices.

C3900-SPE100/K9 Router A

C3900-SPE100/K9 Router B

CIC Swich 4948 with flash bootflash:cat4500-entservices-mz.122-53.SG5.bin

ws-c3750x-24

Regards

Sanjeev

Hi Sanjeev,

Thanks for reaching out. Just wanted to let you know that we are focussing on Catalyst QoS in this dedicated discussion and end to end QoS configuration assistance is outside its scope. If you have any specific questions about a feature or a topic on Catalyst QoS we will be more than glad to answer them for you.

For QoS configuration assistance and best practices, I would suggest following the Campus QoS design guide located at

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/solutions/Enterprise/WAN_and_MAN/QoS_SRND/QoSDesign.html

Regards,

Shashank

Thanks Shashank.

Hello.

I want to use QoS over QinQ tunnels in Cat3750 (not E or X).

(I posted details of my issue here :

https://supportforums.cisco.com/message/3646171#3646171 )

I want L2 QoS only, and by default the switch copies fields of incoming traffic to the outer 802.1q header of the tunnel; what I want is to preserve the marking of the tunneled traffic (I have to be the most transparent as possible) but apply my own QoS to the tunnel (which is associated to a specific customer); is it possible to keep QoS informations of the tunneled traffic and apply my own rules to a specific tunnel ?

I couldn't find the answer in the documentation.

If I use on my ingress interface something like

mls qos cos 1 override

will it destroy the incoming QoS infos and set the .1p field of the outer header to 1 ?

I will have 2 tunnels (one for each customer) and my final goal is to provide 2% of the badnwidth to the customer A and 10% to B.

Hi,

You can use the "set cos" or "set ip dscp" policy map commands which change the cos/dscp value of only the outer tag of the encapsulated packet.

Though I assume that 'mls qos cos 1 override' will also affect only the outer (service provider) tag, I am not 100% sure on this.

Regards,

Shashank

Thank you.

I'll try to trust dscp and override cos; if I can at least keep dscp intact and enforce my qos at layer 2 it would be ok.

Is there any guide about QinQ related QoS somewhere ? I couldn't find anything except the documentation and the configuration examples page :

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps5023/products_tech_note09186a0080883f9e.shtml

Seems to be far from being simple !

Hi Surya,

Following guide talks anout QoS with QinQ, though on a different platform. I believe it will still be useful to understand the workings.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/metro/me3600x_3800x/software/release/15.1_2_ey/configuration/guide/swqos.html#wp1044145

Regards,

Shashank

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