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Dynamic bandwidth on a 2960S

benjamin-
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A customer of ours, wishes a rather alternativ solution.

They have a /28 wan adress coming from ISP, that gives out 100Mbps, going to a Cisco 2960S switch (ver. 12.2) the switch is only holding 1 vlan. Connected to the 2960 are 3 firewalls/routers from other manifactors, each creating their own network.

The customer wishes for a solution where each final FW/router gets minimum 33% and maximum 100% of the bandwidth, depending on how much each final Fw/router are in use.

Can that be done?

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Joseph W. Doherty
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It might be.

Outbound on the port toward the ISP you would direct each FW's traffic to one of the 2960S's 4 egress queues and configure SRR that each of those 3 queues gets 33% (or 1:1:1) of the bandwidth.

Inbound is tricky and problematic.  The problematic issue is, unless we can configure QoS on the ISP port to your 2960S we cannot really control bandwidth usage.  We can, though control bandwidth to the FWs, similar to the egress to the ISP, and this will somewhat achieve fair sharing for traffic like TCP, but not for other traffic.  (Again, downstream bandwidth management is very difficult to fully control.)

The tricky part is managing bandwidth to the FWs.  We need all 3 FW traffic on the same port, so we can again do what I described for egress to the ISP.  This can be accomplished on the same switch by placing the FWs into a different VLAN and then, on the same switch, cross connecting two additional ports between the original VLAN and the new FW VLAN.  (BTW, if you do this, you should/must move the described QoS for the ISP egress port to this new cross connect port too.)  The cross connected ports will be able to manage bandwidth sharing in both directions.

NB:  If the ISP bandwidth is 100 Mbps, the cross connected ports should also run at 100 Mbps.

PS:

BTW, CDP may continuously complain the cross connected ports are in different VLANs.  If it does, you could disable CDP on those ports.

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