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- From: Roland Acra <acra@cisco.com>
- Subject: Re: Mixed traffic - x25 and Ethernet
- In-Reply-To: <dalk.725926686@login.dkuug.dk>; from "Lars Kalsen" at Jan 1, 93 10:18 pm
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- Date: 5 Jan 93 7:12:10 PST
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- > We are considering a new network which connect all of our different
- > sites through a WAN. We will probably buy some CISCO routers.
- >
- > The trafic which is routed through the CISCO equipment is split
- > in two
- >
- > - FTAM trafic based on x25 connections
- >
- > - Interactive terminal sessions based on TCP/IP on an Ethernet.
- >
- > Like this:
- >
- > IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
- > FTAM/X25----------> I I
- > I CISCO ROUTER I------- 2 MBit --->
- > TCP/IP/ETHERNET---> I I
- > IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
- >
- >
- > The CISCO routers can mix these two kinds of input intp one 2Mbit channel
- > which connects the different sites.
- >
- > My concern is now : Will the interactive traffic suffer when a heavy
- > FTAM transport is taking place ?. Will the file transfers affect the
- > responsetimes for the interactive traffic to a large extend ?.
- >
- > If YOU have any experience with this please E-mail (or fax) me the
- > information. Or if you have a reference to the litterature about this
- > kind of setup I will appreciate that too. Or just youre opinion from
- > your experience.
-
- Hello Lars,
-
- You can apply the "Priority Queueing" mechanisms on your outbound
- interface on the router. With that, you can specify that, in case
- of congestion, your IP traffic should take precedence over your OSI
- traffic.
-
- Priorities can be set based on protocol (IP, CLNS, DECNET, etc),
- or application (specify TCP or UDP port numbers), or the interface
- through which the packets entered the router, or the packet sizes.
-
- Look for the keywords "priority-list" and "priority-group" in your
- router manual.
-
- Finally, please note that priority queueing is mostly useful on
- "low-speed" interfaces (+/- up to 64Kbps), which are likely to
- be congested. Be sure the extra overhead introduced by priority
- queueing is worth it on a 2Mbps link.
-
- Roland Acra
- Cisco Systems, Europe
-