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- From: Roland Acra <acra@cisco.com>
- Subject: Re: Mixed traffic - x25 and Ethernet
- In-Reply-To: <9301061116.AA09299@z1wnsv.gmd.de>; from "wip@baloo.gmd.de" at Jan 6, 93 12:16 pm
- Message-ID: <726352426.10849@news.Colorado.EDU>
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- Date: 6 Jan 93 10:28:54 PST
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- Willi,
-
- Indeed, I had assumed that the output interface was a 2M leased
- line, NOT an X.25 @ 2M interface. Priority queueing over X.25 is
- not supported in current software.
-
- I have no answer yet on availability of priority queueing applied
- on an X.25 interface.
-
- Thanks for the clarification.
- Roland
- >
- > Hallo,
- >
- > in your E-Mail you are advising Lars Kalsen to look into using
- > priority queuing in his environment.
- >
- > The 9.0 router manual states on page '7-4':
- >
- > '... Also note that priority queuing does not operate
- > over X.25'
- >
- > This would mean that if Lars Kalsens router is connected to
- > a 2 Mbit X.25 access point and not to a leased line,
- > priority queing is not possible.
- >
- > Has this changed for 9.1 or is there any change intended in the future?
- >
- >
- > -- Willi Porten
- > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
- > E-Mail: Willi.Porten@gmd.de, Tel: +49 2241 14 3190
- > GMD (German National Research Center for Computer Science)
- > Dept: ISA.NW, Rathausallee 10, D-W-5205 St. Augustin 1 (Germany)
- >
- > > From: Roland Acra <acra@cisco.com>
- > > Message-Id: <9301051512.AA24265@ash.cisco.com>
- > > Subject: Re: Mixed traffic - x25 and Ethernet
- > > To: dalk@login.dkuug.dk (Lars Kalsen)
- > > Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 7:12:10 PST
- > > Cc: cisco@spot.colorado.edu
- > > In-Reply-To: <dalk.725926686@login.dkuug.dk>; from "Lars Kalsen" at Jan 1, 93
- > > 10:18 pm
- > > X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
- > >
- > > > 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
- >
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